Cultural Education & Environmental Justice Program
We bring Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Environmental and Social Justice principals to the front of our curriculum. This program is a living collaboration between Indigenous Relations Consultants (IRC), partner organizations, educational and governmental institutions. Our mission is to decolonize conventional ways of learning and knowing by applying Traditional Ecological Knowledge through individual and collective lenses. Additionally, we assist representatives of BIPOC+ and underserved communities to advocate for them while making presence at places that our voices are usually not included. Therefore, we bring health equity under the premise to create space for participatory reparations actions.
Through the lens of educational teachings, workshops, land acknowledgements and equity consultancy based on ancestral wisdom, we are utilizing diverse Indigenous worldviews to create equity within our communities as we connect to the natural world; using an interactive experience that will further the understanding of the Natural World beyond the boundaries of conventional Western ecological paradigms, and in the process, expand and deepen the relationship with all the communities of life. The program will explain the importance to social, cultural and land rematriation while accessing different areas of land in program tours so there is a somatic experience to the knowledge that will be acquire. We bring the voice of Indigenous representation to be included in spaces where equity has to take place while developing partnership with other organizations that open up and honor the original People’s Lands.
We offer services and work together to bring in TEK with current and former collaborators and institutions such as:
FLOWS, Boulder Valley School District (BVSD)-Denver Public School Liaisons such as Sprout City Farms-Nature Conservation/Denver, Audubon-Denver Zoo-Environmental Justice Center- CU Boulder-Denver Mountain Parks-Alliance Action Center-Open Space Mountain Parks Cool Boulder-Groundwork Denver- Classrooms for Climate Action- ECAT- Cool Boulder- The Alliance for Collective Action- Denver Public Health- Suelo Bueno- Americas for Conservation- University of Northen Colorado (UNC)
Meet our Program Consultant
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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."
If you are interested in learning more about our program, please contact CEEJ@hafnco.org
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