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Past Presentation

NW Elders ECHO | May 10, 2022

Date of Presentation: May 10, 2022

The Northwest Elders and Knowledge Keepers ECHO session took place on May 10th, 2022. In this session, Jennifer Martin (Cherokee) presents on Gardening and Gathering – Practicing Relationality.

The faculty panel members for this session of the Northwest Elders, Knowledge Holders, and Culture Keepers ECHO includes:

  • Jesse Beers – Cultural Stewardship Manager for the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians
  • Dr. Danica Brown – Behavioral Health Program Director, NPAIHB
  • Atwice Kamiakun – Culture Coordinator for the Yakama Nation
  • Marilyn Scott – Vice Tribal Chair for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe

Recording:

Presented by:

Jennifer Martin

Jennifer (Jenny) Martin is an enrolled Citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She was born and raised in western Washington.  After graduating from high school, she moved to Bellingham, WA to attend Northwest Indian College (NWIC), a Tribal College on the Lummi Nation Reservation. She completed her degree from NWIC in 2019 with a BS in Native Environmental Science, with a special emphasis in ethnobotany and Indigenous knowledge systems. Jenny wanted to continue her studies, as well as connect more to the Irish side of her heritage so she moved to Ireland and completed an MA in Culture and Colonialism while studying the Irish language (as well as Cherokee (Tsalagi) language online) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her thesis focused on traditions of Indigenous intellectualism and Indigenous pedagogies. Understanding how culture, language, and non-human relations influence Indigenous health and sense of self is an ongoing passion for Jenny. She currently works at the Lummi Tribal Health Clinic as the Healing Spirits Gardener through the Diabetes Prevention Program.

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Date added: May 10, 2022