AT24-235, Webinar, Exploring Indigenous Understandings of our Ecological World

Webinar Title: Exploring Indigenous Understandings of our Ecological World

AT-VMS: AT: Hill Country Chapter Other Approved Training (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Location, and Presenter)

Comments: AT24-235, Webinar, Exploring Indigenous Understandings of our Ecological World, Presenter: Annette Anderson (AT=2h)

Webinar Date: 6/5/2024
Webinar Time: 7:00p-9:00p

Event Summary: To help the audience understand the worldviews common to Traditional Native spiritual and cultural relationships with the outdoor environment

Event Description:
This presentation will focus on helping the audience understand the worldviews common to Traditional Native spiritual and cultural relationships with the outdoor environment. This workshop explores the differences between Western Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge as they relate to building relationships with the plants, animals, waters, and lands where you live and work.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO JOIN VIA ZOOM. Zoom Registration Link is below.

This is North Texas Master Naturalist Chapter’s monthly meeting.
Schedule: 6:30pm Meeting Opens for Tech Check and Camera Roll
7:00pm Chapter Announcements
Approximately 7:20 Speaker Presentation
Approximately 8:30 – 8:45 Meeting Ends

About the presenter:
Annette Anderson, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Supervisor with over 40 years providing counseling and consultation services. She received the first HEW Indian Child Welfare Training Grant at the University of Oklahoma School of Social Work and is a retired Adjunct Lecturer in the Early Childhood Disorders master’s program at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Ms. Anderson currently serves on the Council for the Indigenous Institute of the Americas. She is co-founder of the IIA Seed Ambassador and Food as Medicine initiatives, which engage urban Native children and families in their culture through Traditional ecological, geographical, and plant knowledge. Ms. Anderson is also the Chairperson for the most prominent two-day outdoor American Indian arts and culture event in North Texas, the IIACelebration (IIAC).

Since February 2020, Ms. Anderson has been working with other Native elders and educators, to complete the first American Indian and Native Studies High School Innovative Course ever developed or offered in Texas. In addition, she serves on the Native American Advisory Circle at Texas Christian University and collaborated on the first official university Land Acknowledgement for Texas Christian University in 2020 She is a descendant of the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations

Cost: No Cost

Register @: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rdr3Q75BR0mUox9EyyGfjw

Presenter: Annette Anderson

Contact Information: [email protected] on behalf of Ginger Greatens

Organization Website: https://ntmn.org/

Sponsoring Organization: North Texas Master Naturalist Chapter