Seeds of Justice Speaker Series

(From press release) The Episcopal Church of St. Martin is pleased to announce the second season of its Seeds of Justice speaker series, which explores the racialized history of the land on which Yolo County residents live and work. It asks: What is our responsibility as community members to the original inhabitants of this land, the ancestral homeland of the Patwin-Wintun people, and to those who have worked the land and stewarded it? What is the legacy of environmental racism, exploitation, and ecological degradation? How can we heal and repair the harm?  

Professor Beth Rose Middleton Manning

Professor Beth Rose Middleton Manning from the Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis, is our first presenter. Prof. Middleton Manning’s talk is titled:

“In Relation to Water: Indigenous Leadership in Restoring and Re-Envisioning Watershed Stewardship,”

and will be held on 18 September, 4:00pm, in person and online at the Episcopal Church of St Martin, 640 Hawthorn Lane, Davis CA 95616. To attend, please register at the following website:

https://churchofstmartin.org/2022/08/03/save-the-date-seeds-of-justice-continues/

Professor Middleton Manning will discuss how, in our contemporary 21st-century moment of ecological and cultural reckoning, governments (federal, tribal, state, local) and citizens’ groups are recognizing that aging water infrastructure must be addressed as a matter of truth and reconciliation, and to strengthen the climate resilience of beleaguered ecosystems and communities. This presentation centers Indigenous leadership in dam removal and river restoration, with examples from systems in Alaska, Washington, and California.

This event is free and open to the public at 640 Hawthorn Lane, Davis, CA. For more information about Seeds of Justice, please see https://churchofstmartin.org/2022/08/03/save-the-date-seeds-of-justice-continues/. The program has been made possible by a grant from Episcopal Community Services of the Diocese of Northern California, with support from our partners, the Yolo Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice, the Yolo Climate Emergency Coalition, and YoloSol.

Two other presentations will be:

Melinda Adams

Sunday, 16 October at 4pm, via Zoom

“Cultural Fire, Storytelling, and Reclaiming Indigenous Land Stewardship Practices”

Melinda Adams (N’dee San Carlos Apache), PhD candidate in Dept. of Native American Studies, UC Davis, and previous Tribal College Professor of Environmental Science at Haskell Indian Nations University

AND

Professor Emeritus John Liu

Sunday, Nov. 13 at 4pm, via Zoom

“How Manifest Destiny Changed the Color of Labor”

John M. Liu, Professor Emeritus in Depts. of Asian American Studies and Sociology, UC Irvine