Anishinaabe Science and Food Sovereignty.

Miskwaanakwadookwe Amy McCoy is enrolled Sault Sainte Marie Chippewa and mixed disconnected chimookomaan descent. She has been an Ojibwe language activist for 20 years and is a PhD student in Culture and Teaching - Curriculum and Instruction.

Making connections with land, water, Ojibwemowin and our relatives, through intergenerational interactions, observation and storying. The beavers become our teachers. 

Biidaabanikwe (Kimberly Anderson) is an enrolled member of Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (White Earth Reservation) who is a PhD student in Culture and Teaching. She has been an Ojibwe language activist for the last 18 years and is interested in reclaiming the Ojibwe language using land-based pedagogy. 

Learning through enacting Hmong-centered approaches. To UA UA KE, or to do together, reimagines how Hmong education can be understood and practiced by incorporating multigenerational, traditional, and ancestral ways.

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Chou Moua, is currently a PhD student studying Comparative International Development Education. He is also a MN ZejZog Research Fellow and has interests in advancing AAPI education.

Connecting Chinese heritage families in Plymouth, MN with Indigenous and their personal stories of cottonwood trees. 

Peng (she/they), PhD student of Culture and Teaching, C&I, CEHD.

Dimitri is currently a PhD student STEM education and affiliations with the departments of Biology Teaching and Learning (BTL) and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB).

To support The School for Field Studies mission in providing place-based education to its students, Tommy Van Norman created a place-based design for SFS student participants to further engage with their education and research through self-reflection and activities. Through "This Place", students' learning will be supported through self-reflection while they engage with nature, each other other, and communities. Through This Place, students will begin to understand the layers and histories of place, as well as how to begin making connections and meaning with stories and culture through land and water. 

Tommy Van Norman (he/him) is a PhD student in Comparative and International Development Education. His interests are in exploring how formal higher education experiences (i.e., study abroad and experiential/immersive learning) imbed land-based, placed-based, or Indigenous education into their curriculum and programming, and how those experiences impact a student's learning, intercultural development, and environmental stewardship.

Opportunities to listen to oral histories from former campers and counselors while spending time outside at Camp Katharine Parsons.

Caitlin Cook-Isaacson (she/her or they/them) is a student in the Heritage Studies and Public History Masters program. 

Imagines into being land-based experiential Ojibwe language learning, connecting language to land and land to language.  Participants walk land with intention to experience language as it tells the story of the wind, land and water. 

Waase-giniwikwe (Monique Paulson) is of Ojibwe and mixed European descent. Her home community is Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (White Earth) where her father is enrolled.  She is the daughter of Niizhoobines (Raymond) and Audrey Paulson, grand-daughter of Aandegoons (Susanna Bellecourt) and Pat Paulson.  She is an Ojibwe language activist active in learning communities for nearly 20 years.