Community Nature Study Series with Carrie Calisay Cannon: Plants, Inspiring the People: Reflections on Two Decades of the Hualapai Ethnobotany Youth Project

Community Nature Study Series with Carrie Calisay Cannon: Plants, Inspiring the People: Reflections on Two Decades of the Hualapai Ethnobotany Youth Project The ethnobotanical story of the Hualapai Tribe begins with the plant knowledge the people have inherited from their great grandparents who lived entirely off the land. Hualapai grandchildren live in a completely different modern world full of TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and text messaging. The Hualapai Ethnobotany Youth Project in its twentieth year is an intergenerational program focused on maintaining traditional plant knowledge as a lived practice. The one million acre Hualapai Indian Reservation spans the middle of the Colorado River along 108 miles of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau. The ancestral land base geographically encompasses both Mojave and Sonoran Desert types. This is a region of the world that is botanically distinctive and rare. Information presented will share about the project examining the crucial role that traditional plant knowledge has played in Hualapai culture, knowledge fine-tuned and perfected over millennia. Reserve your spot as space is limited. Presenter Info: Carrie Calisay Cannon Carrie Calisay Cannon is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, and also of Oglala Lakota, and German ancestry. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and an M.S. in Resource Management. She is employed with the Hualapai Indian Tribe of northern Arizona fulltime as an Ethnobotanist, working towards promoting the persistence of tribal plant knowledge as a living practice and tradition. By weekend she is a lapidary and silversmith artist who enjoys chasing the beautiful as she creates Native southwestern turquoise jewelry.