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New Publications
Eating the Landscape – American Indians Stewards of Foods and Resilience
Board member Enrique Salmon will publish his first book, tentatively entitled, Eating the Landscape – American Indians Stewards of Foods and Resilience, with the University of Arizona Press. This book project was sponsored by the Cultural Conservancy and funded by the Christensen Fund. It will be the first official book publication of TCC! The book documents Enrique’s many years as an ethnoecologist, botanist, Native funder and advocate working with Tribes and indigenous communities in the Southwestern US and Northwestern Mexico. It focuses on traditional farming, foodways, resilience, and traditional ecological knowledge. The book is expected to be released by UA by summer 2011. We are very excited about this great news!
For more information: www.uapress.arizona.edu
Farmer Jane: Women Changing The Way We Eat
Founder Claire Cummings, executive director Melissa Nelson, and advisor Lois Ellen Frank are all featured in the new book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing The Way We Eat (2010) www.farmerjane.org
Staff Update
Melissa Nelson received the Anne Ray Resident Scholar Fellowship from the School For Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico for the 2010 – 2011 academic year. She will focus on writing a book on indigenous cultural revitalization movements featuring the Salt Song Trail Project. During this time Melissa will take a nine-month sabbatical as executive director of TCC. TCC Program director Nicola Wagenberg will step up as Acting Executive Director while Melissa is in Santa Fe. sarweb.org/index.php
Workshop Update
In July TCC completed a Tribal Media workshop at the Round Valley Indian Reservation, hosted by Cheryl Hinton (Karuk/Hupa/Yurok) of the Round Valley High School. Led by TCC Media trainers China Ching, Nicola Wagenberg, Melissa Nelson, and L. Frank we conducted a three and a half day training focused on digital storytelling, oral history, audio recording, photography, and basic editing. Ten tribal members participated and completed a powerful five-minute film about the importance of documenting the history and culture of Round Valley.