Makoons is the author of Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings (hardcover 2009, paperback 2023) and the editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask (2015, written by her mother Mary Siisip Geniusz). Her mother’s Cree and Métis family comes from the Pas in Manitoba. Makoons was raised with Ojibwe language and culture to honor her Ojibwe namesake, Keewaydinoquay. Since childhood, Makoons has worked on Ojibwe language and culture revitalization projects in Indigenous communities throughout the Great Lakes region. All her publications and research focus on creating decolonization tools for Indigenous language and culture revitalization.

This lecture is sponsored by Seeds of Wellbeing, Spinster Books, and Apostle Island Booksellers.

Savanna Basina, Red Cliff Indigenous arts and science coordinator, will be partnering with Britton Doolittle of Chequamegon Books to lead a study of Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz’s books in the weeks leading up to this lecture in August.

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