Photos: Native Plants & Insects, Fall 2022
FIRST NATIONS GARDEN
Subject: First Nations Garden Mounds and Native Plants & Insects
Location: Chicago, IL (Albany Park)
Date: 09/23/2022
Camera: Canon S110
Photographer: David Bernie (Ihanktonwan Dakota)
NATIVE PLANTS & INSECTS LIST
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)
Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)
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.
