https://www.esf.edu/calendar/event.asp?EventId=14284 Sloan Scholar Bean Minerd introducing 2021's Native American and Indigenous Heritage Month Keynote Speakers at ESF: Tadodaho Sidney Hill of the Onondaga Nation & Kasike Roberto Múkaro Borrero of the United Confederacy of Taíno People, who both spoke about Indigenous Rights & Climate Work with the United Nations. The event was hosted by the... Continue Reading →

"As a forestry student, It’s always a privilege to have the opportunity to learn about the forest from indigenous knowledge holders. Personally as a Tuscarora, it was a special honor to hear voices from across the Haudenosaunee confederacy and to be hosted graciously by the Onondaga Nation and Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force. Aside from the... Continue Reading →

Indigenous Peoples' Day | October 11, 2021 | Gateway Center | 3:30pm-5:30pm Join us as we honor Indigenous Peoples' Day: The focus of this program will be the Native American / Indigenous Residential and Boarding School in the US and Canada Keynote Speaker: Virgil Brave Rock, Blackfeet Nation, Residential School Survivor. Co-Sponsored by the Office... Continue Reading →

Text originally published here Drawing on Indigenous and scientific knowledge, new collaboration will create initiatives in support of land and water conservation A new partnership between the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry's (ESF) Center for Native Peoples and the Environment (CNPE) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) will serve as a bridge between traditional... Continue Reading →

Robin Kimmerer ’75 at the pond on her property. Originally published by ESF Magazine: https://magazine.esf.edu/braiding-sweetgrass/ In a pandemic where people are distancing, a book that speaks of connectivity with nature is resonating with people seven years after it was originally published. Dr. Robin Kimmerer’s ’75 “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of... Continue Reading →

Mariah Gladstone is a Sloan Fellow at ESF and a 2020 MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellow Originally published by ESF Communications and Marketing: https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8803 Mariah Gladstone, a Sloan Fellow at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), has been named one of eight 2020 MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellows. Gladstone owns and operates... Continue Reading →

From left; Mariah Gladstone ’21, Dineh Judd ’21, Susannah Howard ’21, Dr. Robin Kimmerer, professor and director of the ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, and Biidaaban Reinhardt ’20 Originally published at ESF Magazine: https://magazine.esf.edu/esf-pilots-sloan-foundation-program/ Mariah Gladstone grew up near Glacier National Park in Montana’s Rocky Mountains. After earning a bachelor’s degree in... Continue Reading →

Youth and elder members of the Haudenosaunee delegation pose in front of the United Nations.  In September 2019, staff from the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment joined participants and chaperones from the August 2019 Native Earth summer program and other Haudenosaunee community members in New York City to participate in the Climate Action... Continue Reading →

All of the participants and chaperones posed after a full day of canoeing, swimming, and learning about archaeological sites on Tupper Lake.  In August, the Center celebrated the 10th anniversary of Native Earth, our flagship environmental summer program for native high school students. This year, 19 young people, 10 chaperones and family members, and Center... Continue Reading →