There are many parallel concepts between Indigenous worldviews and science. Dr. Frederick Wiseman is a paleobotanist, Indigenous scholar and advocate, who has lived within the powerful ambiguities between the spiritual and the academic. Over the last decades, Wiseman has found that ecological and materialist concepts and principles learned from his earlier Tohono O’Odam, Yoreme, Yoeme , and Maya ethnobotanical mentors can be reconfigured into a way of thinking and study that seamlessly integrates Indigenous and scientific perspective. In 2012, Wiseman founded the Seeds of Renewal Project which reintroduced ancestral Wabanaki crops, ceremony, horticulture, music, and cuisine into an integrated Indigenous American Abenaki biocultural calendar that runs to this day. Join Dr. Wiseman, along with IAIS Staff, for a virtual presentation and discussion of his work, which he believes may be used in cultural recovery, wellness, and as a way to deter assaults on the American Abenaki communities’ ethnic legitimacy.
This presentation is the first in The Institute for American Indian Studies’ Annual Native American-Archaeology Roundtable series. This year’s series of talks seeks to explore the deep ecological ties of Indigenous communities, past and present, through the sharing of new technologies, new findings, and new analyses.
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