“Local Contexts: Restorying Sovereignty with Plant Relatives” is a new comic that illustrates the collaboration between Shinnecock Nation, Local Contexts, and New York Botanical Garden around reconnection and sovereignty with plant relatives.

The project leaders are:

• Jane Anderson, Local Contexts and NYU
• Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea), Local Contexts and University of Waikato
• Sunshine Gumbs (Shinnecock Nation), Shinnecock Nation
• Alex C. McAlvay, New York Botanical Garden
• Kelsey Leonard (Shinnecock Nation), University of Waterloo

This short-form comic by Petroglyph Studios comes out of the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science, funded through National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships program.

Read and download the full comic on Zenodo.