1. Native American Garden Recovering Health and Knowledge
By: Keni Zenner, Lyndsey Weber, and Alex Beyer
"One gardener's weed is another gardener's flower, salad, wine, medicine, fiber, dye, or poison" - Shirley Shirley

2. Healing Earth Ceremony Prayer
O Great Creator
I come before you in a humble manner
And offer you this sacred pipe.
With tears in my eyes and an ancient song from my heart I pray.
To the four powers of Creation,
To the Grandfather Sun,
To the Grandmother Moon,
To the Mother Earth,
And to my ancestors.
I pray for my relations in Nature,
All those who walk, crawl, fly, and swim,
Seen and unseen,
To the good spirits that exist in every part of Creation.

3. - Medicine Grizzly Bear
I ask that you bless our elders and children, families and friends,
And the brothers and sisters who are in prison.
I pray for the ones who are sick on drugs and alsohol
And for those who are now homeless and frolorn.
I also pray for peace among the four races of humankind.
May there be good health and healing for this Earth,
May there be Beauty above me,
May there be Beauty below me,
May there be Beauty in me,
May there be Beauty all around me.
                  I ask that this world be filled with Peace, Love and Beauty.
- Medicine Grizzly Bear

4. Native American Agricultural History
End of Ice Age
Big game dies off
Lifestyle shift
Nomadic
Agriculture
Attitudes toward Living Creatures
Animals asked for forgiveness
Plants thanked

5. Native Science 1,000 AD, East Coast Native corn Frost Resistant
Adapted to short growing season
 This 'technology' allowed tribes like
        the Hidatsa and Mandan to thrive. 
Buffalo Bird Woman
Grew three sisters 
Brought sophisticated systems of agriculture
Produced beans, corn, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, and more than 20 other foods we use daily.

7. Arrival of Settlers Trade New crops Potatoes Carrots
White settlers and Dakota 
Dawes Act
"The Indian Problem"
Lose over 17,000,000 acres
Goal 
"To break up the tribe as a social unit"

8. Native American Health
Land displacement and elimination of traditional food practices had huge health consequences
1 in 8 had diabetes - 2x the non-Indian population
cancer, depression, suicide, stress, violence, and substance abuse also widely prevalent
"loss of power" is the biggest health issue
Restoring health must happen on community level in addition to individual level
Health is multifaceted - physical, social/emotional, intellectual, and spiritual

9. Garden Design

10. Three Sisters Corn, beans, and squash
"They want to be together with each other, like we want to be together with each other." -Chief Louis Farmer, Onondaga
One variety of Three Sisters
Mandan Bride Corn
Hidatsa Shield Maiden Bean
Summer Crookneck Squash
Buffalo Bird Woman's Design

11. Medicine Wheel Ojibwe Interpretation Sacred Circle Number 4 Directions
Seasons
Periods of life 
Four Sacred Plants
Used for meditation and healing
Used for prayer

12. East Quadrant Physical Health Infancy Spring Plants Marigold Dill  
Physical Health
Infancy
Spring
Plants
Marigold
Dill
Goldenrod
Night Willow Herb
Dwarf Buttercup

13. South Quadrant Emotional Health Adolescence Summer Plants Indian Grass
Emotional Health
Adolescence
Summer
Plants 
Indian Grass
Prairie Rose
Echinacea
Beets
Bee Balm

14. West Quadrant Mental Health Adulthood Autumn Plants
Purple Prairie Clover
Big Bluestem
Sage
Lavender
Prairie Phlox

15. North Quadrant Spiritual Health Elder Winter Plants Sweetgrass Yucca
Night-Scented Tobacco
Mint
Boneset

16. Center Two extra directions Zenith (above) Nadir (below) Peace Pole
“May peace prevail on 
      earth” printed on all 
      sides of the pole, and
      many Native American 
      words for Peace
Strawberries 
 Around the base
            of the pole

17. Stepping Stones

18. Drying Rack/Arbor History Watch tower Drying rack Our Garden
Our Garden
Community Builder
Information Center
Shade
Drying Rack - with teaching

19. Drying Rack - Buffalo Bird Woman

20. Long-Term Garden Plans
Start conservatively, and add as the garden teaches us
Expand varieties
Perennials 
Winona LaDuke's Corn
Dream of Wild Health Model
Orchard
Children's Garden
Education
Children learn about culture and health
Seed Bank
Save heirloom varieties

21. Challenges/Solutions
 Right/competence to teach Native traditions and beliefs
 Solution: Build relationships (CNIA, AISES, WCROC, Morris Healthy Eating, etc.)
"Build a road by walking."
 Garden Workers - labor
Solution: Garden plan relatively simple - little labor needed.
Future paid internship positions to maintain and teach

22. Challenges/Solutions
Keeping the Space Sacred
Solution: act as "stewards of the land"
Guidebook/log - pass on the historical and cultural knowledge
Maintain relationships with Native American elders
 Pest Control
 Solution: Repellent herbs
mint and marigolds
Collaboration with WCROC 
                   for gopher removal

23. Challenges/Solutions
Cross-Pollination
Solution: inter-garden communication
Hand-pollination
Science-based research for seed saving and storage
Science students do research on heirloom seeds
Sustainability of the Land
Solution: compost and worm humus established
Future: multiple plots to let land fallow

24. Community Outreach Plan
Powwow
Sacred tobacco offerings - spring
Drumming ceremonies
Student involvement
Medicine Wheel stepping stones
TREC
Gateway Program
Long-term goals: children's diabetes prevention garden and research garden
classroom

25. Community Outreach Plan
Sharing of Food
Pride of the Prairie local foods meal
Community Meals - Native American 
            foods theme
Garden Involvement
Office of Community Engagement and Multi-ethnic Student Program - student volunteers for harvest
Exhibit harvest in Student Center
Engage Native artists
Peace Pole, scarecrow, educational plaques
Seed Saving --> Seed Sharing

26. Conclusion All actions must be intentional We must be patient
Humility and relationships are key
We can never know all the answers

27. Closing Prayer from the Navajo Blessing Way Ceremony
In beauty I walk
With beauty before me I walk
With beauty behind me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty around me I walk
It has become beauty again (