Growing Hope
Native American Heritage Month • Educational, 01-Jul-2020
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
Beth Roach details the Nottoway Tribe’s tradition and efforts to preserve native culture through ancestral seeds.
Roach is a co-founder of the Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, an organization that was formed to preserve ancestral seeds.
Roach hopes to keep ancestral seeds alive and rebuild culture and food security in native communities.
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Michael Martin
Originally broadcast at 1:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, July 20, 2021.
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Interfaith Friday: Haudenosaunee
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, July 31, 2020.
Michael Martin speaks on Haudenosaunee on Interfaith Friday.
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CLSC: "Braiding Sweetgrass" with Robi...
Originally broadcast Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
Book available online at the Chautauqua Bookstore: https://www.chautauquabookstore.com/book/9781571313560
Botanist and Professor Robin Wall Kimmerer will join us in the Hall of Philosophy to give the author’s presentation for the 2022 CLSC selec...
