Wabanaki Plant Gathering in Acadia National Park: Mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge

Suzanne Greenlaw is a citizen of the Houlton Band of Maliseets and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine School of Forest Resources. She is an ethnobotanist focused on mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge and cultural practices to address Indigenous cultural resource issues such as reduced land access, invasive species planning, and restoration of traditional gathering practices.

Suzanne currently co-leads a project that facilitates the development of plant gathering agreements between the Wabanaki Nations and Acadia National Park. This interdisciplinary work focuses on Wabanaki stewardship approaches and cultural protocols to assert Indigenous sovereignty within natural resource management. Suzanne’s talk will focus on the Indigenous Research Methodology and participatory action research approach to facilitate sweetgrass gathering in Acadia National Park. This research aims to provide a template of culturally appropriate engagement between Indigenous gatherers and National Parks.

This is a free, public event hosted by the Mi'kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre (MWC) at the University of New Brunswick in unceded, unsurrendered Wolastoqey territory. For more information about the MWC, visit http://www.unb.ca/mwc.

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