Cultural Education & Environmental Justice Program

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CEEJ
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Water Info Sessions
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Land Acknowledgements
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Education
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Indigenous Relations Consultants
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Seeds of Justice

Our Work

  • We center Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Environmental and Social Justice principles in all aspects of our curriculum. This program is a living collaboration between Indigenous Relations Consultants (IRC), partner organizations, and educational and governmental institutions.

    Our mission is to decolonize conventional ways of learning and knowing by applying Traditional Ecological Knowledge through both individual and collective experiences, while ensuring Indigenous and BIPOC+ voices are present in spaces where decisions about land, health, and equity are being made.

  • We use Indigenous worldviews and ancestral wisdom to create learning experiences that connect people to the natural world beyond conventional Western ecological frameworks.

    Through education, dialogue, and land-based experiences, participants develop a deeper understanding of:

    • Relationships between people, land, and ecosystems

    • Cultural responsibility and stewardship

    • Collective well-being and community resilience

    • Learning is designed to be experiential and somatic, not only intellectual, strengthening long-term connection to place and responsibility to all communities of life.

  • Our work integrates TEK into community, institutional, and organizational settings through:

    • Educational teachings and curriculum development

    • Community workshops and facilitated learning experiences

    • Land acknowledgements grounded in relationship and accountability

    • Equity and inclusion consulting informed by Indigenous knowledge systems

    • Land-based program tours that connect social, cultural, and ecological restoration

    These services support social, cultural, and land rematriation while fostering meaningful engagement with the lands where programs take place.

  • We actively support representatives of BIPOC+ and underserved communities by helping create access to spaces where their perspectives have historically been excluded.

    Our work promotes health equity and participatory reparative action by:

    • Centering community voices in planning and implementation

    • Supporting community-led advocacy

    • Building pathways for long-term institutional change

    Equity is not treated as an add-on, but as a foundational responsibility across all partnerships and programs.

Our Collaborators and Institutional Partners

We work with current and former partners to bring Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) into education, land stewardship, and community programs.

Boulder Valley School District
Denver Public School
CU Boulder
Denver Zoo
Groundwork Denver
Sprout City Farms
Adubon Rockies
Cool Boulder
Flows Logo
The Alliance For Collective action
Open Space Mountain Parks
Denver Mountain Parks
Denver Department of Public Health & enviroment
Alliance Center Logo
Colorado State University's Center for environmental justice
Boulder Valley School District
Denver Public School
CU Boulder
Denver Zoo
Groundwork Denver
Sprout City Farms
Adubon Rockies
Cool Boulder
Flows Logo
The Alliance For Collective action
Open Space Mountain Parks
Denver Mountain Parks
Denver Department of Public Health & enviroment
Alliance Center Logo
Colorado State University's Center for environmental justice

Meet our Program Consultant

  • CEEJ Program Consultant

    • Reshawn Edison holds a BA in Social Science, specializing in Anthropology with a minor in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies from the University of Denver. Reshawn is the Cultural Education and Environmental Justice Program Consultant and an Indigenous Relations Consultant at Harvest of All First Nations. At Living Heritage Anthropology, Reshawn works as an Ethnographer, contributing to tribal consultation efforts in historic and cultural land management. He serves as President and Ceremonial Leader of Heska Makoce Tyospiye, the Native American Church of Colorado, which promotes access to Indigenous prayer and healing. As an anthropologist rewriting Indigenous narratives and actively challenging settler power structures to the commitment of social justice.   

  • Giver of life holy water. Learning from 3rd graders today. This element has memory and can understand us. So now I’m very careful when I drink it, eat with it. When frozen, ice molecules tell us a story. Real events and thoughts of this water is always shared, but understood by few.

  • This was a life changing workshop. I now look at the natural world from a different perspective."

Interested in getting involved or supporting us?

Thank you for your donation, and for supporting Harvest of All First Nations to reach our goals!

If you are interested in learning more about our program, please contact CEEJ@hafnco.org