Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
2012 Hannahville USFS Zaagkii Project Smiling Kids Plant Tree Saplings #27 Serious Pondering at Apple Sapling
Hannahville Indian School students planted apple and cedar saplings in April 2012 at the Hannahville Indian Community as part of the U.S. Forest Service-funded Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Photos by Greg Peterson
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Volunteer Media Advisor
906-401-0109
ZaagkiiProject@gmail.com
(Wilson, Michigan) – Students from the Hannahville Indian School (Nah Tah Wahsh PSA) enjoyed planting saplings including apple trees on April 12, 2012 at the Hannahville Indian Community nation as part of the USFS-funded Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
With smiles on their faces and dirt on their hands, the students had fun planting the apple tree and cedar tree saplings.
The planting of apple and cedar trees was the culmination of a native plants restoration and pollinator protection workshop at the Hannahville Indian Community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth
Videos about the workshop that include the children can be found at:
During the Hannahville workshop, a northern Michigan Native American elder said he believes something is amiss in nature and encouraged tribal communities to join with non-tribal partners for pollinator protection and the restoration of native plants.
A crisis is imminent.
Honeybees and native pollinators such as bumblebees are declining at alarming rates as the native plants that sustain them are decreasing due to habitat loss via non-native invasive plants.
“It is your responsibility – as well as ours – to be tenders of the garden,” said Earl Meshigaud, Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Tribal Council Member and Culture Department Director. “That’s what we were put here for – to take care of God’s Creation.”
The workshop and other related projects like a tribal greenhouse are examples of Native American tribes and the U.S. Forest Service working together to restore native plants and protect pollinators.
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The workshop was entitled:
Kinomaagewin-Aki
Teachings from the Earth
A Native Plants Restoration and Pollinator Protection Workshop – For Native American Tribal Communities in Northern Michigan
Insights into traditional Native cultural teachings, medicinal plants and challenges facing native plants restoration efforts in Indian country
An overview of native plant restoration and pollinator protection efforts among Native American tribal communities
Perspectives from the U.S. Forest Service on grant possibilities and technical support
Sponsored by the Cedar Tree Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the Hannahville Indian Community
Representatives of 5 tribal communities attended the April 2012 pollinator protection and native plants restoration workshop hosted by the Hannahville Indian Community
Represented at the workshop:
The Hannahville Indian Community
The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)
The Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW)
Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University
The Hannahville meeting was the third in a series of Zaagkii Project/U.S. Forest Service tribal workshops in northern Michigan.
Prior workshops were held in July 2012 at KBIC and July 2011 at Presque Isle Park in Marquette.
The fourth workshop will be on Thursday, Sept. 13 and Friday, Sept., 14, 2012 at Lac Vieux Desert (LVD) near Watersmeet, Michigan.
The LVD workshop will include pollinator protection and native plants restoration information with a focus on wild rice, among other topics.
Zaagkii Project sponsors include Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, United States Forest Service (USFS), Marquette County Juvenile Court, U.P. Children's Museum and the Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University
The Zaagkii Project is coordinated by the Cedar Tree Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides services and initiates projects in the areas of mental health, religion and the environment.
For more info:
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)
Rev. Jon Magnuson
Director
Cedar Tree Institute
906-228-5494
magnusonx2@charter.net
Tom Biron, Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians
tom@reinhardtassociates.net
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project:
Pollinator protection and native plants restoration project with the U.S. Forest Service, U.P. Native American tribes, The Cedar Tree Institute, The Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University, Marquette County Juvenile Court
Zaagkii is Anishinaabe for “The love that comes from the Earth”
WingsAndSeeds.org/2011/08/05/efforts-plant-restoration-un...
Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth
wingsandseeds.org/2012/03/08/kinomaagewin-aki-teachings-f...
“There’s always been one deep conviction underlying the Zaagkii Project,” Magnuson says. “Restoring the earth is inextricably linked to a healing of the human spirit.”
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The USDA United States Forest Service:
Larry Stritch
USDA U.S. Forest Service
National Botanist
Washington, D.C.
1-202-205-1279 (office)
email USFS National Botanist Larry Stritch
lstritch@fs.fed.us
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Jan Schultz, USFS
Botany, Non-native Invasive Species
Special Forest Products Program Leader
USDA Forest Service Eastern Region
Milwaukee, WI
1-414-297-1189 (office)
email USFS regional botanist Jan Schultz
jschultz@fs.fed.us
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USFS Eastern Region Native Plant Materials Accomplishments
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: A Native Plants & Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5353195.pdf
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativeplantmaterials/documents/...
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The Pollinator Partnership:
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Workshop host:
Hannahville Indian Community:
“Keepers of the Fire”
Hannahville Indian Community
N14911 Hannahville B-1 Road
Wilson, Michigan
49896
906-723-2270 (office)
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Hannahville Indian School
Nah Tah Wahsh PSA
Wilson, Michigan
906-466-2952 (office)
Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Department of Culture, Language and History: Potawatomi Language website
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Scott Wieting
Environmental Programs Coordinator for the Hannahville Indian Community
906-723-2295
swieting@hannahville.org
hannahville.net/services/details/309
Wieting oversees the implementation and management of all tribal environmental protection programs.
He oversees the tribes’ environment-related federal grant programs.
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Workshop Presenters/Related Info:
Earl Meshigaud, Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Tribal Council Member and Culture Department Director
(Contact info above)
2012 Zaagkii Project: "Be tenders of the garden" - Hannahville Potawatomi Elder Earl Meshigaud
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvOCHCaM-r8&list=UUL8j3hNz2Xa...
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Dr. Scott Herron, PhD.,
Ethnobotanist (Odawa, Anishinaabe)
Biology professor at Ferris State University
Program Coordinator Wild Rice/Ethnobiology Lab
www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/colleges/artsands/Biological-Science...
231-591-2087
herrons@ferris.edu
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Jan Schultz, Botanist
U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region Botanist
(Contact info above)
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Dr. Martin Reinhardt, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University
906-227-1397 (office)
mreinhar@nmu.edu
www.nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies
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Karen Anderson
KBIC Greenhouse Staff
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians
906-524-5757
906-353-6623
The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community 16-foot geodesic dome solar-powered native plants greenhouse was built in cooperation with the USDA U.S. Forest Service, Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project and nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan
The wide-range of indigenous plants includes:
Evening primrose, Black-eyed Susan and bee balm
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
---
Stephanie Blumer
USFS Eastern Zone Botanist
Hiawatha National Forest
Escanaba, Michigan
906-643-7900 ext. 155
sblumer@fs.fed.us
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Nicole Shutt
USFS Biological Science Technician
Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest
Lakewood Ranger Station
Lakewood, Wisconsin
715-276-6333
nshutt@fs.fed.us
---
Melissa Simpson
USFS Ecologist
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
Florence, Wisconsin
715-528-4464 ext. 139
mdsimpson@fs.fed.us
---
Nathan Wright
Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians
Herbal Lodge, owner
Petoskey, Michigan
www.linkedin.com/in/nathanjohnwright
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Laura Bermudez
Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1558516746&sk=wall
---
Cherice Williams
Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community
Fitness Center Aide
hannahville.net/files/documents/Issue_5_May_2011.pdf
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001272622067
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Sweet Sixteen Apple Tree Saplings:
www.apples.umn.edu/varieties.html
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2012 Hannahville USFS Zaagkii Project Smiling Kids Plant Tree Saplings #27 Serious Pondering at Apple Sapling
Hannahville Indian School students planted apple and cedar saplings in April 2012 at the Hannahville Indian Community as part of the U.S. Forest Service-funded Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Photos by Greg Peterson
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Volunteer Media Advisor
906-401-0109
ZaagkiiProject@gmail.com
(Wilson, Michigan) – Students from the Hannahville Indian School (Nah Tah Wahsh PSA) enjoyed planting saplings including apple trees on April 12, 2012 at the Hannahville Indian Community nation as part of the USFS-funded Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
With smiles on their faces and dirt on their hands, the students had fun planting the apple tree and cedar tree saplings.
The planting of apple and cedar trees was the culmination of a native plants restoration and pollinator protection workshop at the Hannahville Indian Community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth
Videos about the workshop that include the children can be found at:
During the Hannahville workshop, a northern Michigan Native American elder said he believes something is amiss in nature and encouraged tribal communities to join with non-tribal partners for pollinator protection and the restoration of native plants.
A crisis is imminent.
Honeybees and native pollinators such as bumblebees are declining at alarming rates as the native plants that sustain them are decreasing due to habitat loss via non-native invasive plants.
“It is your responsibility – as well as ours – to be tenders of the garden,” said Earl Meshigaud, Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Tribal Council Member and Culture Department Director. “That’s what we were put here for – to take care of God’s Creation.”
The workshop and other related projects like a tribal greenhouse are examples of Native American tribes and the U.S. Forest Service working together to restore native plants and protect pollinators.
-------
The workshop was entitled:
Kinomaagewin-Aki
Teachings from the Earth
A Native Plants Restoration and Pollinator Protection Workshop – For Native American Tribal Communities in Northern Michigan
Insights into traditional Native cultural teachings, medicinal plants and challenges facing native plants restoration efforts in Indian country
An overview of native plant restoration and pollinator protection efforts among Native American tribal communities
Perspectives from the U.S. Forest Service on grant possibilities and technical support
Sponsored by the Cedar Tree Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and the Hannahville Indian Community
Representatives of 5 tribal communities attended the April 2012 pollinator protection and native plants restoration workshop hosted by the Hannahville Indian Community
Represented at the workshop:
The Hannahville Indian Community
The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC)
The Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians
Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW)
Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University
The Hannahville meeting was the third in a series of Zaagkii Project/U.S. Forest Service tribal workshops in northern Michigan.
Prior workshops were held in July 2012 at KBIC and July 2011 at Presque Isle Park in Marquette.
The fourth workshop will be on Thursday, Sept. 13 and Friday, Sept., 14, 2012 at Lac Vieux Desert (LVD) near Watersmeet, Michigan.
The LVD workshop will include pollinator protection and native plants restoration information with a focus on wild rice, among other topics.
Zaagkii Project sponsors include Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, United States Forest Service (USFS), Marquette County Juvenile Court, U.P. Children's Museum and the Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University
The Zaagkii Project is coordinated by the Cedar Tree Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides services and initiates projects in the areas of mental health, religion and the environment.
For more info:
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI)
Rev. Jon Magnuson
Director
Cedar Tree Institute
906-228-5494
magnusonx2@charter.net
Tom Biron, Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians
tom@reinhardtassociates.net
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project:
Pollinator protection and native plants restoration project with the U.S. Forest Service, U.P. Native American tribes, The Cedar Tree Institute, The Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University, Marquette County Juvenile Court
Zaagkii is Anishinaabe for “The love that comes from the Earth”
WingsAndSeeds.org/2011/08/05/efforts-plant-restoration-un...
Kinomaagewin-Aki: Teachings from the Earth
wingsandseeds.org/2012/03/08/kinomaagewin-aki-teachings-f...
“There’s always been one deep conviction underlying the Zaagkii Project,” Magnuson says. “Restoring the earth is inextricably linked to a healing of the human spirit.”
-------
The USDA United States Forest Service:
Larry Stritch
USDA U.S. Forest Service
National Botanist
Washington, D.C.
1-202-205-1279 (office)
email USFS National Botanist Larry Stritch
lstritch@fs.fed.us
---
Jan Schultz, USFS
Botany, Non-native Invasive Species
Special Forest Products Program Leader
USDA Forest Service Eastern Region
Milwaukee, WI
1-414-297-1189 (office)
email USFS regional botanist Jan Schultz
jschultz@fs.fed.us
---
USFS Eastern Region Native Plant Materials Accomplishments
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: A Native Plants & Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5353195.pdf
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativeplantmaterials/documents/...
---
The Pollinator Partnership:
-------
Workshop host:
Hannahville Indian Community:
“Keepers of the Fire”
Hannahville Indian Community
N14911 Hannahville B-1 Road
Wilson, Michigan
49896
906-723-2270 (office)
---
Hannahville Indian School
Nah Tah Wahsh PSA
Wilson, Michigan
906-466-2952 (office)
Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Department of Culture, Language and History: Potawatomi Language website
---
Scott Wieting
Environmental Programs Coordinator for the Hannahville Indian Community
906-723-2295
swieting@hannahville.org
hannahville.net/services/details/309
Wieting oversees the implementation and management of all tribal environmental protection programs.
He oversees the tribes’ environment-related federal grant programs.
-------
Workshop Presenters/Related Info:
Earl Meshigaud, Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Tribal Council Member and Culture Department Director
(Contact info above)
2012 Zaagkii Project: "Be tenders of the garden" - Hannahville Potawatomi Elder Earl Meshigaud
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvOCHCaM-r8&list=UUL8j3hNz2Xa...
---
Dr. Scott Herron, PhD.,
Ethnobotanist (Odawa, Anishinaabe)
Biology professor at Ferris State University
Program Coordinator Wild Rice/Ethnobiology Lab
www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/colleges/artsands/Biological-Science...
231-591-2087
herrons@ferris.edu
---
Jan Schultz, Botanist
U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region Botanist
(Contact info above)
---
Dr. Martin Reinhardt, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University
906-227-1397 (office)
mreinhar@nmu.edu
www.nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies
---
Karen Anderson
KBIC Greenhouse Staff
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians
906-524-5757
906-353-6623
The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community 16-foot geodesic dome solar-powered native plants greenhouse was built in cooperation with the USDA U.S. Forest Service, Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project and nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan
The wide-range of indigenous plants includes:
Evening primrose, Black-eyed Susan and bee balm
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
---
Stephanie Blumer
USFS Eastern Zone Botanist
Hiawatha National Forest
Escanaba, Michigan
906-643-7900 ext. 155
sblumer@fs.fed.us
---
Nicole Shutt
USFS Biological Science Technician
Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest
Lakewood Ranger Station
Lakewood, Wisconsin
715-276-6333
nshutt@fs.fed.us
---
Melissa Simpson
USFS Ecologist
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
Florence, Wisconsin
715-528-4464 ext. 139
mdsimpson@fs.fed.us
---
Nathan Wright
Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians
Herbal Lodge, owner
Petoskey, Michigan
www.linkedin.com/in/nathanjohnwright
---
Laura Bermudez
Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1558516746&sk=wall
---
Cherice Williams
Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community
Fitness Center Aide
hannahville.net/files/documents/Issue_5_May_2011.pdf
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001272622067
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Sweet Sixteen Apple Tree Saplings:
www.apples.umn.edu/varieties.html
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