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New comic about Local Contexts

Comic panel showing four illustrated people looking at a plant specimen. An insert map shows Shinnecock Homelands today known as Long Island, New York. Two Label icons, TK Attribution and BC Provenance. Panel text: “Local Contexts: Restorying Sovereignty with Plant Relatives. The collaboration is advancing data sovereignty protocols and applying Local Contexts Labels, which recognise community provenance and create opportunities for connection and inclusion.”

“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.