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Sharing Indigenous Wisdom, An International Dialogue on Sustainable Development

Wednesday

7:45 - 9:00 a.m.

Travel to Menominee Indian Reservation

9:00-12:00p.m.

Forest Management on the Menominee Forest
Host:  Menominee Tribal Enterprises
Our first tour stop provided a great opportunity to view the current, on the ground practices, of the Menominee sustainable forest management process.  During this tour, we will looked at silvicultural techniques, natural disturbance dynamics, harvesting methods, and forest ecosystem management approach developed and applied in the Menominee forest. 

12:00-1:00p.m.

Lunch and College of Menominee Nation Tour
Host:  College of Menominee Nation
The tour included a stop at the College of Menominee Nation Main campus for lunch and a tour of the College of Menominee Nation campus. During the tour we learn about CMN’s history, programs, and it’s impact in the Menominee community.  At the college campus, you will expand your knowledge of tribal colleges, the tribal college movement, and significance of tribal colleges to indigenous people sustainability.

1:00-3:00p.m.

Menominee Tribal Community Tour
Host:  Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
In the afternoon, tour included a bus trip around the Menominee Indian Reservation.  Hopefully, our tour guides provided interesting anecdotes of the Menominee Indian Reservation and surrounding communities and sites.

3:00-4:15p.m.

Menominee Logging Camp Museum
Host:  Menominee Indian Tribe Historic Preservation Office
The tour will include a tour of the Menominee Logging Camp Museum.  Located along the scenic banks of the Wolf River, the Menominee Logging Camp Museum is a fascinating exhibit of Menominee logging history.  At the museum, we learned of Menominee culture and history through the stories and artifacts.  We also learned about the Menominee Tribal Historic Preservation Office and its efforts to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Menominee people.

5:30p.m.

Returned to Radisson Hotel, Green Bay

6:30-10:30p.m.

Traditional Feast & Pow-Wow

A traditional feast was served from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for our powwow participants, family members and special guests.

The Sharing Indigenous Wisdom International Conferance powwow started at 7:30 p.m. and lasted well past 10:30p.m.   Our guests and participants were encouaged to partake in the festivities of the night. We all learmed how a powwow is a gathering for dance, song, and celebration.  It celebrates the connections to tradition and spirituality, to the Earth and to one another in a social, personal, and spiritual meeting. No other event captures the American Indian spirit like the powwow.  The Powwow today epitomizes the enduring spirit of American Indians and the aboriginal will to survive.

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LAND & SOVEREIGNTY

Are integral to the process of sustainable development. The Menominee Nation has a firm experiential basis for their understanding of this process. They know first hand the horror of termination, and the struggle for restoration of their status as a federally recognized Indian tribe. While political restoration has been accomplished, other aspects of restoration are yet unattended. Central to our research and extension mission is the commitment to those topics and activities that re-affirm tribal sovereignty and preserves the tribal estate.

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

The long and successful Menominee experience in sustained yield forestry is the cornerstone of its community's sustainable development. SDI has prioritized forest products, forest ecology, enhanced commerce of timber products, and value added forest products as immediate topics relevant to its scholarship and research and extension mission.

INSTITUTIONS

In aiding in the development and maturation of the institutional life of the rural and reservation communities which we serve, we ensure the longevity of our efforts, maximize the impact of our initiatives, and position our own institution firmly within the community context which has chartered our mission.

TECHNOLOGY

SDI works collaboratively with the Menominee Telecommunications Design Team to enable a multi-media telecommunications infrastructure capable of serving our rural and reservation community institutions. The Design Team includes the College, the Tribal and County governments, and the Menominee Tribal Enterprises. We believe rural and reservation communities are dependent on the foresight of their institutions to assure access to the new wave of information technology. We are committed to forwarding the development of information infrastructure. We are attuned to the potential of electronic commerce, medicine, and judicial practice, advancing local access to technological innovations, and complementing our academic goal of advancing technological literacy.

ECONOMY

Initial entry into extension services to forward this dimension are in nascent development, with an initial emphasis on cooperating with the local business incubator, offering workshops for potential entrepreneurs and service as a research resource for tribal enterprise. We anticipate the local regions designation as an enterprise community will provide additional training opportunities.

HUMAN PERCEPTION, ACTIVITY & BEHAVIOR

A priority for research lies in projects which assure access to safe and reliable food and water resources. To that end, we anticipate complimenting research efforts in sustainable forestry with new initiatives in permaculture, ethnobotany, and preliminary investigation of the feasibility of aquaculture and hydroponics production.

Decision Making

Today we remain dependent on this land and water to sustain us. Therefore, we must make the necessary decisions to sustain it for future generations. We believe Menominee Autochthony is the centerpiece by which decision making must take place for successful sustenance of this nation and land.

AUTOCHTHONY - n. from the land itself; nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally as in a particular place. (Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913).

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