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Braiding Sweetgrass Author Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer Comes to the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation Big Cypress Reservation, Fla. (October 26, 2022) - The Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum and Climate Resiliency Program are honored to join Florida Gulf Coast University in hosting the national bestselling indigenous author, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer to the Big Cypress Reservation on November 16, 2022. A public reading and book signing will be held at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum’s Sculpture Garden at 5pm.This is a free event. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. This month, Dr. Kimmerer received a prestigious “genius grant” award when she was named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow for her research and writing on the principles of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. About the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum opened in 1997 and is owned and operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Situated in the Everglades on a 66-acre cypress dome on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, the museum offers more than 5,000 square feet of gallery space. Exhibits feature rare artifacts and lifelike dioramas that depict Seminole life at the turn of the century. In 2009, the Museum became the first tribally governed museum to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. For more information, visit www.ahtahthiki.com and follow the museum on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Braiding Sweetgrass Author Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer Comes to the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation
Big Cypress Reservation, Fla. (October 26, 2022) - The Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum and Climate Resiliency Program are honored to join Florida Gulf Coast University in hosting the national bestselling indigenous author, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer to the Big Cypress Reservation on November 16, 2022. A public reading and book signing will be held at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum’s Sculpture Garden at 5pm.This is a free event.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. This month, Dr. Kimmerer received a prestigious “genius grant” award when she was named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow for her research and writing on the principles of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
About the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum
The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum opened in 1997 and is owned and operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Situated in the Everglades on a 66-acre cypress dome on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, the museum offers more than 5,000 square feet of gallery space. Exhibits feature rare artifacts and lifelike dioramas that depict Seminole life at the turn of the century. In 2009, the Museum became the first tribally governed museum to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. For more information, visit www.ahtahthiki.com and follow the museum on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.