{"id":31360,"date":"2024-07-01T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/?page_id=31360"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:55:22","slug":"one-the-contemplative-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/academics\/the-office-of-cultural-education-and-support\/truth-racial-healing-and-transformation-trht\/the-mu-path\/path-locations\/one-the-contemplative-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"1. The Contemplative Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This starting point of PATH is a contemplative space where we welcome you to stop & reflect:<\/span><\/p>\n CONSIDER<\/b> this quotation: \u200b\u200b\u201cFor all of us, becoming Indigenous to a place means living as if your children\u2019s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.\u201d –<\/span>Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/span><\/a>, Potawatomi Scholar, Author of <\/span>Braiding Sweetgrass<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n WATCH <\/b>Questions for a Resilient Future: Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/span><\/a> by the Center for Humans & Nature<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y4nUobJEEWQ<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> Grassy area in front of light post<\/span><\/p>\n The Anishinaabeg<\/b> (Ojibwe) are Algonquian-speaking peoples who harvest the sap from the black maple to make sugar and syrup and cure meats. Black maple bark has many medicinal purposes (e.g., gastrointestinal support).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> Close to sidewalk in mulched bed at back fence along stairs<\/span><\/p>\n Indigenous tribes such as the Cherokee, Delaware, and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) make the wood and root bark from a similar native Virginia tree of this region \u2013 black cherry (Prunus serotina var. serotina<\/i>) \u2013 into furniture, food, and medicine (e.g., treating coughs and sore throats).<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Location: <\/span>By back fence along stairs and parking lot<\/span><\/p>\n The Anishinaabeg<\/b> (Ojibwe) refer to the cedar tree as \u201cNookomis Giizhik\u201d (Grandmother Cedar) and make rope, mats, ceremonial objects, canoe frames, and more out of the wood and bark. The needles (rich in Vitamin C) and twigs have many medicinal purposes (e.g., treating headaches).<\/span><\/p>\n The berry-like seed cones provide food for birds and squirrels. The native white-tailed deer, an important source of food and clothing, eat the evergreen foliage. Especially in the winter, the evergreen foliage provides shelter and cover for wildlife.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Location: In front of tall ornamental holly trees next to gazebo<\/span><\/p>\n The Cherokee<\/b> and the <\/span>Delaware<\/b> are among the Indigenous peoples who make medicine and food from a similar native Virginia shrub of this region, the wild hydrangea (<\/span>Hydrangea arborescens<\/i>). Medicinal purposes include treating burns, sore muscles, and skin infections.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n VISIT<\/b> this site<\/span><\/a> to learn more about the Indigenous Environmental Network\u2019s #THRIVE4NDNCOUNTRY initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n THRIVE stands for Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EXPLORE<\/b> the #THRIVE4NDNCOUNTRY action toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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Contemplative Garden Native Plants<\/h3>\n
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Black maple <\/b>(<\/b>Acer nigrum<\/i><\/b>)<\/b><\/h6>\n
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Ornamental cherry (<\/b>Prunus <\/i><\/b>sp.)<\/b><\/h6>\n
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Atlantic white cedar (<\/b>Chamaecyparis thyoides<\/i><\/b>)<\/b><\/h6>\n
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READ<\/b> Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings<\/span><\/i><\/a> by Mary Siisip Geniusz.<\/span><\/p>\n
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