Here Live the Stories: Seeds for Indigenous Research

• Main Authors: Anderson, Joyce Rain, Helme-Boardley, Kerri, Mitchell, Donna Edmonds
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University 2012
• Subjects: Three Sisters; abenaki
• Online Access: https://vc.bridgew.edu/may_celebrations/2012/session2/18

In The Common Pot, Lisa Brooks centers her work around the Abenaki concept of awikhigan, tools we use in “transmitting an image or idea from one mind to another” that “operate within particular, tangible spaces.” My teaching and scholarship honor this concept by incorporating multiple ways of “transmitting” local Native knowledge to students and colleagues at BSU. During summer 2011, my Indigenous sisters and I tended a three-sisters garden at Bridgewater State University and incorporated it into my Native Women Writers class. Sponsored by a small CART grant, the Here Live the Stories project was started at the Bridgewater Community Growing Spaces. This presentation will discuss working with local Native communities in teaching and scholarship.