Niweskok: From the Stars to Seeds

Niweskok: From the Stars to Seeds

https://www.niweskok.org/

Niweskok, which translates to “dried seeds for planting,” “essence of life,” and “spirit” in the Penobscot language (one of five languages of the Wabanaki Confederacy), is a collaboration of Wabanaki food and medicine providers that are rematriating the Penobscot Bay region of Maine as an Indigenous foodhub. Niweskok rematriates Wabanaki lifeways through food production capacity building, their Wabanaki Rematriation School, a community apothecary, and birth and life cycle teachings. At the root of each community harvest, workshop and all curriculum materials is the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge through Wabanaki languages, history, stories, ecology and climate adaptation.