Revival of Indigenous Agriculture in the Northeast 

  

 

Join us as world plant explorer, Fred Wiseman, shares his experiences tracking down seeds that represent the agricultural and culinary history of the Northeast Wabanaki tribe. Dr. Wiseman, archeologist, indigenous rights activist, author and Wabanaki tribe member, has worked with indigenous communities in Vermont for years to restore tribal food systems and increase food and seed sovereignty. By reintroducing ancient crops, agricultural practices and cuisine, the Wabanaki tribe has regained a vibrant cultural identity nearly lost over the past 100 years. Learn about these ancient foods and techniques and try them in your own food gardens at home! A true ethnobotanic detective story with practical take-home knowledge!

Dr. Frederick M. Wiseman was trained as a paleo-ethnobotanist at the University of Arizona.  He taught and did research at Louisiana State, MIT’s Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, and Johnson State College in Vermont, where he retired as Department Chair in 2014.  He has published extensively on tropical fieldwork in Belize, Honduras, Yucatan and arid-lands research in Arizona and Sonora Mexico.  Over the last twenty years he has focused on the culture and ecology of the Wabanaki people of northern New England, Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes, completing books and films, scholarly and popular articles and presented papers on Wabanaki culture & ecology.

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