Photos: Native Plants & Insects, Summer 2021
FIRST NATIONS GARDEN
Subject: First Nations Garden and Native Plants & Insects
Location: Chicago, IL (Albany Park)
Date: 08/01/2021
Camera: Canon S110
Photographer: David Bernie (Ihanktonwan Dakota)
NATIVE PLANTS & INSECTS LIST
Sunflowers
Cup Plant (Silphium perfoliatum)
Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata)
Brown-winged Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon splendent)
PLANTING MOUNDS
The planting mounds are directly managed by Chi-Nations each of the three mounds contains different Native plants. Our mounds are developed as a teaching aid to help revitalize Indigenous cultivation while providing substance for a wide range of pollinators.
PHOTOGRAPHS
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.
