‘Kenny’


Kenny Tahawiso:ron Perkins and Mary Iotenerahtatenion Arquette presented on behalf of the A:se Tsi Tewa:ton “We All Make New Again” program in the Akwesasne Mohawk community, which came about as a result of a Natural Resources Damages Assessment, awarded to the community as a result of contamination released into the environment by General Motors and Alcoa. The rogram focuses on 4 areas of traditional cultural practice that were impacted by the contamination: water, fishing use of the rivers; medicine plants and healing; hunting and trapping; horticulture and traditional foods. To revive and share knowledge in each of these areas, each program has a master teacher and apprentices. Kenny and Mary were presenting on behalf of the horticulture program and laid out their 4 year commitment: year 1 includes learning modern and traditional agriculture, year two entails developing individual techniques, year three is aiming for community scale gardening, and in year four they would become a resource center and seed saving hub for the community.

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