Onondaga LanD Rights & Our Common Fu­ture II A Collaborative Educational Series bringing together the Central community, Syracuse Univer­ ­sity, SUNY ESF, Le Moyne College, SUNY , Onondaga Community College and seven other colleges

Finding Common Ground Indigenous and Western Approaches to Healing our Land and Waters

Rick Hill (Tuscarora) Robin Kimmerer (Potawatomi) is an artist, writer and curator who lives at the Six is a professor in the Environmental and Forest Biol- Nations Community of the Grand River Territory ogy Department at SUNY College of Environmental in Ontario, Canada. He attended the Art Institute of Science and Forestry and director of ESF’s Center Chicago and received a Master of Arts degree from for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her book, SUNY Buffalo. He has worked with many Native Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of American cultural associations, including a stint as Mosses, received the John Burroughs Medal Award the Assistant Director for Public Programs at the for its literary quality, firsthand fieldwork, original- National Museum of the American Indian, Smith- ity and scientific accuracy. She has received several sonian Institution. Currently he is the Coordinator awards for her teaching at ESF from both the col- for the Joint Stewardship Board at Six Nations to lege and students. She also chairs the Traditional develop an environmental interpretation centre and Ecological Knowledge Section of the Ecological manages of the Six Nations Virtual Archives Project. Society of America.

Monday, November 8 at 7 pm Program is free and , 820 East Genesee St., Syracuse followed by a reception

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