The Restorative Ecology of Peace: Haudenosaunee Environmental Knowledge & Caretaking Mother Earth

Event Details

• Friday, December 7, 2018
  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  City: Peterborough
  
  Building: Science Complex (ESB)
  Room: B 203
  Cost: free

Haudenosaunee environmental knowledge forms a strong system of traditional values and ethics for learning about and caring for the natural world. One of the foundational values of Haudenosaunee science and traditional knowledge is that human beings have responsibilities toward the natural world and within an interconnected web of social and environmental health. In this talk, I will share my doctoral research on Haudenosaunee environmental knowledge and culture-based environmental protection processes. I will recount the Indigenous methodologies I implemented in order to do community-based, participatory learning and applied projects over the last decade, and some of the insights generated by my work with Haudenosaunee communities. I will then introduce my current research on Haudenosaunee ethnobotany and food sovereignty, and plans to build a team of scholars and professionals who are working on matters of Indigenous food sovereignty, water restoration, and waste remediation in this age of climate change. All of this work is animated by a conviction that Indigenous value systems and environmental knowledges present pathways of adaptive resilience that are valuable across cultures, and critical for all inhabitants of Turtle Island to live sustainably together in peace.

Dr. Dolan is a scholar of Indigenous Environmental Studies who has a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from McGill University (2016), an MSc in Ethnobotany from the University of Kent, Canterbury UK (2005), and a BA in Social and Historical Inquiry from the New School for Social Research (1999). She has been doing community based research, teaching, and work with Indigenous communities since 2007.

Contact Info

Ashley Horne, Office of Research & Innovation

ashleyhorne@trentu.ca

x. 7050