2012 Hannahville USFS Zaagkii Project Smiling Kids Plant Tree Saplings #30 Hands in the Dirt Image by Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project 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 (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: youtube/ZaagkiiTV WingsAndSeeds.org 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. Childrens 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) CedarTreeInstitute.org Rev. Jon Magnuson Director Cedar Tree Institute 906-228-5494 [email protected] Tom Biron, Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians [email protected] 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 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: fs.fed.us fs.usda.gov/r9 fs.fed.us/wildflowers Larry Stritch USDA U.S. Forest Service National Botanist Washington, D.C. 1-202-205-1279 (office) email USFS National Botanist Larry Stritch [email protected] --- 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 [email protected] --- USFS Eastern Region Native Plant Materials Accomplishments Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: A Native Plants & Pollinator Protection Initiative fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5353195.pdf fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativeplantmaterials/documents/... --- The Pollinator Partnership: pollinator.org ------- Workshop host: Hannahville Indian Community: “Keepers of the Fire” hannahville.net 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) hannahvilleschool.net Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Department of Culture, Language and History: Potawatomi Language website potawatomilanguage.org --- Scott Wieting Environmental Programs Coordinator for the Hannahville Indian Community 906-723-2295 [email protected] 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 youtube/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 ferris.edu/HTMLS/colleges/artsands/Biological-Science... 231-591-2087 [email protected] --- Jan Schultz, Botanist U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region Botanist (Contact info above) fs.usda.gov/r9 fs.fed.us/wildflowers --- Dr. Martin Reinhardt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Center for Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University 906-227-1397 (office) [email protected] nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies --- Karen Anderson KBIC Greenhouse Staff Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians 906-524-5757 906-353-6623 kbic-nsn.gov 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 fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336 fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499 --- Stephanie Blumer USFS Eastern Zone Botanist Hiawatha National Forest Escanaba, Michigan 906-643-7900 ext. 155 [email protected] fs.usda.gov/hiawatha --- Nicole Shutt USFS Biological Science Technician Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest Lakewood Ranger Station Lakewood, Wisconsin 715-276-6333 [email protected] fs.usda.gov/cnnf --- Melissa Simpson USFS Ecologist Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Florence, Wisconsin 715-528-4464 ext. 139 [email protected] fs.usda.gov/cnnf --- Nathan Wright Sault Ste. Marie Band of Chippewa Indians Herbal Lodge, owner Petoskey, Michigan herballodge linkedin/in/nathanjohnwright facebook/herballodge twitter/#!/herballodge --- Laura Bermudez Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community facebook/profile.php?id=1558516746&sk=wall --- Cherice Williams Hannahville Potawatomi Indian Community Fitness Center Aide hannahville.net/files/documents/Issue_5_May_2011.pdf facebook/profile.php?id=100001272622067 ------- Sweet Sixteen Apple Tree Saplings: apples.umn.edu/varieties.html -------
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