Knowledge Share Description

Trickster figures and beings are evident in nearly every indigenous culture around the world.  They assume several forms including coyote, raven, rabbit, skunk, the Greek gods Dionysus and Hermes, the Hawaiian being Maui, the Yoruba orisha Eshu, and the Norse figure Loki.  These figures and beings remind us of the grey spaces of the universe; those spaces and dimensions that we intuitively know exist, but are not always able to see or visit.  Trickster figures remind us also to beware of boxed-in thinking hubris and to pay attention to and embrace the concepts of between-ness, being of two places, borderlands, and liminality. Trickster begins and figures are often celebrated in oral narrative, song, ritual, and ceremony.  Trickster is also embodied in other facets of indigenous culture including plants.

     In this Knowledge Share we will explore many native plants from North American indigenous cultures that reflect trickster consciousness.  We will learn how they are used by various indigenous communities in ceremony, storytelling, and in other parts of daily living.

Knowledge Share Includes

• Trickster consciousness

• Indigenous trickster figures

• Oral Narrative

• Trickster in ceremony

• Indigenous plant uses

Exchange

$35 knowledge share

$70 reparations (knowledge share + pay-it-forward). If you have financial abundance, this is our our pay-it-forward option to fund our scholarships and work redistributing resources to Black and Indigenous Land Projects)

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Trickster

Access

*ASR Captioning provided 

*Spanish interpretation available (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

Sunday June 6

10am-1pm PST / 1-4pm EST

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days

Facilitator

Enrique Salmón, is a Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Indian. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Arizona State University. He is head of the American Indian Studies program at Cal State University East Bay. He holds a BS from Western New Mexico University, an MAT in Southwest studies from Colorado College, and a PhD in anthropology from Arizona State University. He has been a scholar in residence at the Heard Museum and has served as a board member for the Society of Ethnobiology. He has published many articles on indigenous ethnobotany, agriculture, nutrition, and traditional ecological knowledge. He has also spoken at numerous conferences and symposia on the topics of cultivating resilience, indigenous solutions to climate change, the ethnobotany of Native North America, the ethnobotany of the Greater Southwest, poisonous plants that heal, bioculturally diverse regions as refuges of hope and resilience, and the language and library of indigenous cultural knowledge. Dr. Salmon is author of the book, Eating The Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience and Iwígara: The Kinship of Plants and People.