Three Sisters Garden lauded as place to learn and share
After just one growing season, the Three Sisters Garden has provided aboriginal students at Dawson with an inspiring place to gather, to commune with nature and to harvest traditional foods. And as a Gazette article recently reported, “It is also a place of sharing and learning, a bridge between indigenous and non-indigenous students.”
Talented veteran reporter Susan Semenak went on to explain: “What is a Three Sisters garden? It is a vegetable plot in which the three “sisters” of the Mohawk Creation Story coexist as companion plants. First Peoples believe that corn, beans and squash are precious gifts. Legend has it that the seeds of these vegetables were scattered by Sky Woman as she fell to Earth from another world, tamped into the dirt as she danced, and then watered by her tears.”
Orenda Boucher, Coordinator of the First Peoples Initiative at Dawson, figures in the article, and she was also profiled in the Fall issue of CSQ News.
