Cost of Admission: FREE, though donations are warmly accepted.
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Indigenous communities organize towards cultural resurgence, food sovereignty, and climate adaptation, culturally significant seeds and plants play a crucial role. However, over many generations and through many different means, Indigenous communities have been disconnected from their plant and seed kin. This presentation will discuss how return, recovery, and stewardship of these more-than-human kin are essential to adapting to today's challenges and our collective future.
Shiloh Maples is an Anishinaabe community organizer, seed keeper, and storyteller.
Shiloh has a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan, where she specialized in community organizing. She has also completed programs in organic farming and sustainable community design. During her time as a student, Shiloh recognized the powerful potential of food systems to heal and transform communities. Since then, Shiloh has been committed to serving the Indigenous food sovereignty movement and revitalizing her own ancestral foodways. For nearly a decade, Shiloh worked within Detroit's Indigenous community to create a food sovereignty initiative that increased access to ancestral foods, offered culturally-based nutrition education, and created opportunities for the community to practice their cultural foodways in the urban landscape. Since then, she has worked primarily with Indigenous seed keepers and farmers to advance their food sovereignty and seed rematriation work in their local communities.
In 2021, Shiloh was a writer-in-residence at Denniston Hill in upstate New York. In 2022, Shiloh partnered with Whetstone Media to launch her podcast, Spirit Plate--which discusses the social, political, and historical reasons the Indigenous food sovereignty movement is necessary and uplifts the voices of seed keepers, chefs, historians, and community members from across the movement.