Session: This Land is OUR Land: Traditional Uses and Perspectives of the Land and its Chemistry (Science, Technology, and Diversity for a Healthy World)

Friday, October 12, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

615 (WSCC)

Chairs:

John Harada, PhD, Professor, University of California, Davis , Jorge Vivanco, PhD, Professor, Colorado State University and Maria Elena Zavala, PhD, Professor, California State University, Northridge

Description: The traditional knowledge and values of indigenous people guide their use of the land and the plants and animals that inhabit the land to maximize sustainability. Speakers in this session will discuss how traditional knowledge, ethnobotany, and ethnoecology are used to maintain the health of the land and its people.

Sponsored by: Minority Affairs Committee of the American Society of Plant Biologists

8:30 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:35 AM

Aanii Ezhi-maamwiboodaweyaang: Restoring (traditional) knowledge, ecosystems & tribal relations through fire management
Nicholas Reo, PhD , Research Fellow , University of Michigan

8:55 AM

Reframing pre-Columbian indigenous agriculture in North America: An agronomic analysis
Jane Mt.Pleasant, PhD , Associate Professor and Director of the American Indian Program , Cornell University

9:15 AM

No plant is an island: Sacred plant medicine and our role in sustainability
Linda Different Cloud Jones, MS , Science Education Director , Sitting Bull College

9:35 AM

Searching for New Pharmacological Activities in Traditional Remedies
Will McClatchey, PhD , Vice President and Director of Research, Botanical Research Institute of Texas and Professor, University of Hawai'i , Botanical Research Institute of Texas

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