A Virtual Conference – Menominee Agricultural Practices, Historical Perceptions and Late Prehistoric Reality
Presented by the College of Menominee Nation’s Sustainable Development Institute and our research partners
Winter 2021, from Keshena, Wisconsin
For more than 20 years the Menominee Historic Preservation Department, the College of Menominee Nation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Midwest Ethnohorticulture LLC, and others have been collaborating on a renewed series of studies about ancient Menominee garden systems.
A virtual conference with recorded presentations is available online. Here you will find videos of the presentations you otherwise would have heard in person. CMN Interim President Caldwell welcomes you to our conference, Dr. Overstreet and his partners each highlight aspects of the work here and how these ancient gardens are being studied, and Dr. Hoover wraps things up with a keynote address about the state of the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movement today.
We invite you to register and watch these videos at your leisure. Afterwards, please let us hear your impressions of these ancient gardens of the Menominee ancestors and of our ongoing work there.
- Welcome – CMN Interim President Chris Caldwell
- A History of Ancient Gardens Research on the Menominee Reservation – Dr. David F. Overstreet
- Furrows Beneath the Forest Ancestral Menominee Agriculture and Its Implications for the MITW Food Sovereignty Initiative – Dr. William Gartner
- Settlement and Seasonal Movement of Wolf River Tradition Populations in Wisconsin’s Northern Highland – Mark E. Bruhy
- Settlement and Seasonal Movement of Wolf River Tradition Populations in Wisconsin’s Northern Highland – Katie Egan-Bruhy (Written paper)
- Identity and Dinner: The Interpretive Potential of Plant Macroremains – Jennifer Picard
- What Can Biochar Research Tell Us About Charcoal in Ancient Gardens? – Jessica Miesel
- Microbial Diversity in Maize Intercrop Systems – Daniel Hayden
- Cultural Resource Protection on the Menominee Reservation – Jeff Grignon
- Landscape Scale and Aerial Imagery Approaches to Finding Fields – Madeline McLeester
- The Seed has Sprouted: Agriculture at College of Menominee Nation – Frank Kutka
- Keynote: Community Farming, Gardening and Food Sovereignty in Indian Country – Dr. Elizabeth Hoover