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Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut, NAE-246608-OLS-20 NAE-246608-OLS-20, Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut 1. STATEMENT OF NEED The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut (MTIC) is applying for a Preservation and Revitalization Project named “Seed Saver, Story Saver.” The Mohegan Tribe’s reservation is located in Uncasville, Connecticut. The tribe has 2200 members, about half of whom live in-state, near, or on our 595.5-acre reservation on the Thames River. Our audience includes all Mohegans, as well as Natives from the Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, and Narragansett Tribes, and our 2,000+ annual museum-goers (ages 1-100, hailing from all over the world, but especially local school children and CT residents). MTIC’s own educational level is rising, with 150 members attending vocational or academic programs beyond high school annually, which has helped expand public awareness of our museum. The main language spoken by Mohegans is English, although MTIC is working to revitalize and preserve our indigenous Mohegan-Pequot language. For the last century, southern New England tribes have participated in collaborative organizations like the Algonquian Indian Council, Native American Heritage Advisory Committee, and United South and Eastern Tribes, Mohegan Tribal members have been honored at the Narragansett Tribe’s Tomaquag Museum’s Honoring Dinner, and storytellers from Narragansett particpate in our tribe’s culture week, such as Paula Dove Jennings, who wrote a book called “The Strawberry Thanksgiving.” We also share seeds with local tribes. The culture at our tribe’s Tantaquidgeon Museum is one of “Education for all.” This museum has always been free and open to the public since its founding in 1931, and representatives from Narragansett and Pequot attended that opening event nearly a century ago, just as they still attend our festivals today. The culture of the Mohegan tribe is rooted in tradition and adaptation, since colonial times. One of our earliest adaptation was to the English writing system. Mohegans have passed on our traditions through writings since the 18th century. They include best-selling writer/farmer/herbalist/minister Samson Occom (1723-1792), storyteller/ diarist/gardener Fidelia Fielding (1827-1908), & writer/herbalist/cofounder of our tribe’s Tantaquidgeon Museum (musuem), Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005). Writings by Occom on herbs, farming and traditions are documented in Jonna Brooks’ book The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century Native America, published in 2006; Fielding’s “Diaries and Religious Texts Written in the Mohegan Language, 1902-1904” is currently maintained by Cornell University; and Dr. Gladys Tantaquidgeon authored Folk Medicine of the Delaware & Related Algonkian Indians (Penn. Museum and Historical Society, 2006). Gardening and Storytelling/Writing characterized these traditional leaders. The writings of Fielding and Tantaquidgeon include popular stories about the Makiawisug, the powerful Little People of the woods who lead us to healing herbs. In our culture, we offer them corn and tobacco for protection. Fidelia was mocked for her beliefs in the Makiawisug and, although even today not all Mohegans believe in the Little People, many still make offering baskets for them. As we adapted our stories, so too, we adapted our ways of planting and eating. The colonists brought livestock that destroyed our native planting fields and interrupted our ways of life with invasive species. Throughout the past few hundred years, our tribe has adapted to the American diet. However, high levels of diabetes and heart disease (above the national average) indicate we have a specific need to return to eating and growing traditional foods. The goal is to be able to share and exchange seeds, recipes, and knowledge of traditional foods and plant practices. Through growing our own seed library, we will be perpetuating and renewing the use of our traditional foods and herbs such as Narragansett White Cap Corn or (white flint corn), boneset, and Delaware Sehsapsing Corn to name a few. The Narragansett and Mohegan have a 1 The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut very similar variety of white corn, which needs to be preserved by this Seed Saver program. Working together in this way ensures the survival of these crops for all. By adding a Story Saver component to this project, tribal members will better understand the traditional connections between plants, animals and people that make seed saving valuable in creating a better world, and instilling self confidence in members through a deeper understanding of their proud heritage and precious land. Indigenous seed-saver Owen Taylor gifted us his TrueLove seeds for this year’s (newly planted) garden and his logo “The story is in the seed” reinforces our project. We also need to undertake this project to provide farming skills. The defense industry, pharmaceutical, and hospitality businesses that employed our people for the last few decades are not presently employing much of our membership. Most defense industry jobs left the area in the 1980s; pharmaceutical jobs left in the 2010s, and our casino operations are currently shut down. Even when those businesses were active, we still struggled with the same health disparities that other tribes do due to poor and inadequate diets. This is mostly due to historical trauma and the huge interruptions to our food system that occurred as early as the 1600s. We are now trying to bring those systems back. In 2014, we held our first food sovereignty event with Dr. Sonya Atalay (Anishinabe), which brought great feedback via dozens of positive surveys and inspired many of our people to want to learn more about growing and eating traditional foods. Still, many tribal members rely on fast foods and unhealthy options which contribute to diabetes and high obesity rates. Our tribal lands do not currently have sustainable gardens that produce food, and our people are heavily reliant on industrialized agriculture. We need to revitalize our ancient farming and foraging practices in order to sustain a healthy future of the next seven generations. By having this space to share in farming, growing, processing herbs and foods, and then sharing in community meals, this will bring in more tribal members and those from other tribes and take us one step in the right direction towards food sovereignty. There has never been a greater need for food sovereignty than right now. There is also a need for language education as our tribe lost their last speaker in 1908. The Council of Elders hired two language teachers in 2019 who can support this project’s plant-related language preservation and revitalization work. Through revitalizing two gardens at the museum, we will utilize language to label the plants and teach the Mohegan language, thereby giving the language an active, real-life use. This grant will create more activities to facilitate language speaking as well as creating MP4s of plant words for those living outside the main tribal area. Our tribe’s Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country Grant laid the foundation for seed saving in the community and demonstrated the interest and need in the community for traditional foods. Through this Health Department grant, we brought in Narragansett speakers on mushrooms, went on plant walks, held indigenous chef dinners and seed saving events. These events were well attended and had numbers of 20 or more at each event, which is large for a tribal cultural event. After our seedsaving event, Fifty people picked up heritage seeds to grow in their own gardens. This proposed project will expand training in the community on raising indigenous crops, preserving precious seeds, and teaching gardening to children in an effort to preserve the Mohegan language, stories, and seed varieties. At the current time, the only opportunity that tribal members have to eat traditional foods is at our tribe’s “Culture Week” or at a Native Food Discussion Group event. Culture week is only once a year, and although food group meetings are held more regularly, they are currently only available to those who live locally, although we are considering expanding via Zoom. Culture Week brings in tribal members from throughout the country. At culture week, our traditional succotash is served as well as johnnycakes. This grant would enable us to have seeds for these corn plants to share with all of our membership, even those who live out of town. These 2 The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut traditional recipes are available in two publications by tribal members: “The Lasting of the Mohegans” by Melissa Fawcett and the article “Wikôtamuwôk Wuci Ki tà Kihtahan (A Celebration of Land and Sea): Modern Indigenous Cuisine in New England” by Rachel Sayet. Currently, our members have to eat hybridized sweetcorn if they do not have access to traditional corn. The nutritional value of our traditional varieties is much denser, and would thereby help our people mentally, physically and spiritually to get it to them in larger quantities. The MTIC’s Mohegan Library and Archives and Tantaquidgeon Museum will oversee this project to make the most of our farmable land and use it to teach traditional stories. Gardens, hands-on workshops and most events will be located at the museum. Seed saving, and physical copies of stories and support materials will be kept at the library, which is a smaller space but will also offer related activities. Both sites will Seed–Share & Story-Share. The Library is staffed by two people, full time, open to members and tribal staff Mon-Fri 10-5, with additional hours by appointment and with extended hours by appointment and for Special Events. All tribal members and building staff automatically hold library cards. We have 8,000 volumes and two patron computers with internet access. It is an active space, used by all ages, with many activities, services and programs, such as story times, book clubs, cultural workshops, guest speakers, and seasonal celebrations.
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