Video: In the Know by Yahoo Life, 2021
FIRST NATIONS GARDEN
Subject: First Nations Garden
Article: Anthony Tamez-Pochel is creating meaningful green space in the city of Chicago
Publication: In the Know by Yahoo Life
Author: Emerald Pellot
Location: Chicago, IL (Albany Park)
Date: 05/19/2021
ARTICLE
“Anthony Tamez-Pochel is a co-founder of Chi-Nations Youth Council and First Nations Garden, a green space aimed at giving native communities a place to connect with the land and facilitate building relationships.
The 21-year-old, who is First Nations Cree and Sicangu Lakota, uses green spaces to connect native and non-native locals with their surrounding land in Chicago. After forming the Chi-Nations Youth Council to pass down traditions with his friends, he helped launch the First Nations Garden in 2019. ” – Anthony Tamez-Pochel is creating meaningful green space in the city of Chicago, In the Know by Yahoo Life, 2021.
INFO
First Nations Garden (Wiinso, Wiikonge Otishinikaaso) was established in the Spring of 2019 due to community organizing led by the Chi-Nations Youth Council with support from Alderman Carlos Rosa of the 35th Ward. Currently, Chi-Nations is working closely with Neighborspace to ensure a more sustainable future for the garden.
First Nations Garden was chosen as the English name of the space. The term First Nations is a collective noun that emphasizes the importance of direct and ancestral relationships to the land, both human and non-human. As First Nations peoples, we’ve chosen names that carry the garden site’s history and ancestral ecological knowledge and assist in helping provide navigational information and teachings to the greater public.
