April Lindala loads one of the DVDs with a preview of some of the dozens of ethnobotany videos with interviews conducted by NMU Zaagkii Project student interns at Anishinaabe nations across the northern Great Lakes. Lindala is the director of the NMU Center for Native American Studies (All photos by Greg Peterson, Cedar Tree Institute volunteer media advisor)
On the video screen is Wild Rice Camp instructor Roger LaBine who taught students the dozen or more steps of wild rice harvesting at Lac Vieux Desert in Sept. 2010. Its just one of the videos the students are creating for the USFS ethnobotany website.
A United States Forest Service project involving university students interviewing American Indian elders across the northern Great Lakes about traditional native uses for plants and trees was highlighted during an event held in Marquette, Michigan to honor a professor with the Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies.
Those present watched video clips from the Zaagkii Project portion of the new United States Forest Service (USFS) ethnobotany website.
Dozens of videos with interviews from Native American elders will be posted on the ethnobotany website.
Among those present, organizers were honored that Native American elder 86-year-old Rose Martin (seated on right in blue coat) and her daughter, tribal historian Giiwe Martin (seated on left in black jacket), drove over 100 miles to attend.
They started their journey in the southern U.P. town of Watersmeet, MI - the home of their nation the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians aka Ketegitigaaning Ojibwe Nation.
Martin is the oldest living member of the Lac Vieux Desert tribe (Daughters: Giiwegiizhigookway Martin and Waubahnungkway LaRock).
Traveling with her mom was Giiwegiizhigookway "Giiwe" Martin, director of the Lac Vieux Desert Tribal Historic Preservation Office.
The Zaagkii Project interns traveled over 1,000 miles to interview elders, culture bearers and others at Ojibwa/Anishinaabe nations across the northern Great Lakes including the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) and northern Wisconsin.
The Tues., Nov. 30, 2010 event was held at the Marquette Commons and was sponsored by the Northern Michigan University (NMU) Center for Native American Studies (CNAS) and the NMU Anthropology program.
The Zaagkii Project and its part of the ethnobotany website is a cooperative effort between the USFS, NMU CNAS, and the Cedar Tree Institute.
Among those essential to the success of the Zaagkii Project is Jan Schultz, of the USFS Eastern Region office in Milwaukee, WI who has spent much of her time in the Upper Peninsula working on the many Zaagkii Project initiatives including a solar-powered geodesic dome greenhouse for native species plants built in the summer of 2010 at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) Natural Resources Department near L'Anse, MI.
Shepherding the ethnobotany video project in the U.P., Schultz is USFS Regional Head Botanist and leader of the USFS projects to eradicate Invasive Species.
Honored at the event was Dr. Martin Reinhardt (above), who was recently named as an assistant professor with NMU CNAS where he has been active for years and served as director.
It was standing room only as those present also saw a slide presentation about a project entitled “Tracing the Trail: The Pictured Rocks Segment of the Anishinaabe Migration Route.”
NMU anthropology Professor Dr. Alex K. Ruuska presented a PowerPoint story about fieldwork activities at the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore during the summer of 2010.
The project is sponsored by the National Park Service, a U.S. Department of the Interior agency.
In its first stage of research, the project involving NMU students examines Anishnaabeg migration trails within the Upper Peninsula.
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project & Marquette Commons event related contacts and websites:
United States Forest Service Ethnobotany website:
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/index.shtml
USFS Success Stories
http://www.fs.fed.us
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
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Larry Stritch
National Botanist
USDA U.S. Forest Service
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Mail stop 1103
Washington, D.C.
20090-6090
202-205-1279 (Office)
email Larry Stritch
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Jan Schultz
Botany, Non-native Invasive Species
Special Forest Products Program Leader
USDA Forest Service Eastern Region
626 Wisconsin Avenue, 7th Floor
Milwaukee, WI
53203
414-297-1189 (wk)
414-944-3963 fax
email Jan
http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers
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Center for Native American Studies
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette, MI
49855
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies
email NMU Native American Studies
April Lindala, Director
906-227-1397
email April
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/FacultyAndStaff/Bios/Lindala.shtml
Dr. Martin Reinhardt, Ph.D., assistant professor
112C Whitman Hall
906-227-2374
email Dr. Reinhardt
Kenneth “Ken” Pitawanakwat, Anishinaabemowin Professor
112D Whitman Hall
906-227-1504
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/FacultyAndStaff/Bios/Pitawanakwat.shtml
email Ken
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Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)
403 E. Michigan St.
Marquette, MI
49855
Rev. Jon Magnuson, M.Div., MSW, Zaagkii Project founder & CTI Executive Director
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
http://www.wingsandseeds.org
http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/FacultyAndStaff/Bios/Magnuson.shtml
email Jon
906-228-5494 (wk)
906-360-5072 (cell)
906-227-1397 (NMU)
Zaagkii TV youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/ZaagkiiTV
Greg Peterson, CTI & Zaagkii Project volunteer media advisor
email Greg
906-401-0109
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"Tracing the Trail: The Pictured Rocks Segment of the Anishinaabe Migration Route"
Project sponsors: U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service
Project contact info and related websites (under construction):
Alex K. Ruuska, Ph.D., Northern Michigan University anthropology professor
Room 147 Gries Hall
krcarrol@nmu.edu
906-227-2030 (office)
906-227-1212 (fax)
http://webb.nmu.edu/Departments/SociologyAndSocialWork/SiteSections/Programs/anthropology/Anishnaabeg_Migration/tracing_trail.shtml
http://nmuanthro.net/Peter_White_Trail.html
http://nmuanthro.net/About_Us.html
Project blog
http://nmuanthro.tumblr.com
Project Twitter site:
http://twitter.com/nmuanthro
U.S. Department of the Interior:
http://www.doi.gov
U.S. National Park Service:
http://www.nps.gov
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Among those present:
Jan Schultz (standing above with cup in hand), Botany, Non-native Invasive Species and Special Forest Products Program Leader at the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region in Milwaukee
April Lindala, Director of the Northern Michigan University Center for Native American Studies and is the leader of the Zaagkii Project interns and others who are videotaping for the ethnobotany website.
Kenneth “Ken” Pitawanakwat (seated below on right), Anishinaabemowin Professor with NMU Center for Native American Studies. Professor Pitawanakwat has helped Zaagkii Project interns in many ways including Anishinaabe translations
Samantha Hasek (seated center above in black vest), 19, Zaagkii Project intern with NMU Center for Native American Studies and NMU sophomore majoring in Environmental Science
Charlene Brissette (standing above in red hoodie), 20, an NMU senior, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and and a student in the Center for Native American Studies NAS 488 Academic Service Learning Class Project. Charlene was among numerous class members and Zaagkii Project interns who attended a three-day wild rice camp at Lac Vieux Desert in Sept. 2010 and was the pow-wow head youth female dancer in 2006.
Dr. Martin Reinhardt, who was recently named an assistant professor with NMU CNAS where he has been active for years and served as director; and an Anishinaabe Ojibway citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians from Michigan
Rev. Jon Magnuson (above center), M.Div., is founder of the Cedar Tree Institute and its many interfaith, Native American and environment-related initiatives including the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project; and is an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) campus pastor at NMU
Timothy "Tim" Fillmore (above) is a counselor employed by the KBIC tribe and has been very active in environment projects and the Cedar Tree Institute, as are his wife Kyra Fillmore, and their children. Hoping to stop a sulfide "acid mine" on the Yellow Dog Plains, Fillmore joined others camping at sacred Eagle Rock several times during the spring of 2010 before the massive police raid.
Alex K. Ruuska (above on left), Ph.D., Northern Michigan University anthropology professor, who gave a PowerPoint (below) on the projects she’s leading entitled “Tracing the Trail: The Pictured Rocks Segment of the Anishinaabe Migration Route” in partnership with the National Park Service
Leora Tadgerson (above), Zaagkii Project Intern with NMU Center for Native American Studies and citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community, and is pictured holding her son Quinn Taybaawgwawson (Quinn’s father is Zachary E. Lancaster).
Quinn is also pictured twice below.
Walt Lindala (above carrying a large pot of food), Great Lakes Radio Network News Director, WKQS Sunny 102 and married to April Lindala. The award-winning "Mark and Walt in the Morning" is one of the most popular radio shows in the upper Great Lakes and debuted in Jan. 1998.
Rev. Changjwok Nyikako (above in gray sweater), M.Div. , is an ELCA NGLS pastor serving 3 churches in the western U.P. including the First Lutheran Church in Ewen, MI (906-988-2594), Trinity Lutheran Church in Trout Creek, MI (906-852-3231), and Our Saviour Lutheran Church serving Paynesville, MI (906-827-3744)
A few more photos from the meeting with people who care about the future of the world's wildlife, plants and trees.
PowerPoint presentation of “Tracing the Trail: The Pictured Rocks Segment of the Anishinaabe Migration Route” in partnership with the National Park Service:
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