
The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment (CNPE) at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry is the home of the work of Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Robin serves as the founding Director of the CNPE whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both Indigenous and scientific knowledge for shared goals of sustainability. In collaboration with Tribal partners, she and her students have an active research program in the ecology and restoration of plants of cultural significance to Native people. As a writer and a scientist, Robin’s interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land.
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