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Ways of Knowing:

Haudenosaunee Stories and Culture
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Indigenous voices come together to bring you Ways of Knowing. Working in partnership with the Akwesasne Cultural Center, The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY ESF, the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center and the Native North American Travelling College, we unite to broaden and heighten our understanding and appreciation of the natural world.

Ways of Knowing:
Haudenosaunee Stories and Culture

Experience Ways of Knowing: Haudenosaunee Stories and Culture through a series of Storytelling videos that explore traditional narratives and invite us to consider different perspectives of nature and people. Featuring artists & storytellers Dave Fadden and John Fadden from the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center as well as celebrated author, botanist and teacher, Dr. Robin Kimmerer.

The Flying Head- John Fadden

John Fadden relates a Haudenosaunee story about an evil flying head and its encounter with a Mohawk mother.

Robin Kimmerer - Passion For Plants

Botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Kimmerer discusses her journey both learning about and from plants.

How Bear Clan Got Medicines

Using a pictographic record belt, Dave Fadden of the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center tells the story of how the Iroquois people learned about the medicines in nature.

How Birds Got Their Names

Dave Fadden of the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center tells the traditional Haudenosaunee story about the way birds received their individual songs using a pictographic record belt.

Long Ago They Moved Around

Using a pictographic record belt, John Fadden of the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center relates the migration story of native peoples across North America.

Robin Kimmerer - Our Relatives

Botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Kimmerer discusses changing pronouns in order to honor the natural world around us.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant number MA-10-17-0987-17; and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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The Wild Center is situated upon, and benefits from, the ancestral lands and original territory of the Haudenosaunee - Mohawk people. The original people of this place have deep knowledge of the land based on thousands of years of observation and we believe this wisdom can guide a better human and nature co-existence.
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