Alongside the Sweetgrass Cultural Protocol and in collaboration with Suzanne Greenlaw (Maliseet) and Andreas Burgess, Jane made three short documentaries that share Wabanaki Gatherer voices regarding Sweetgrass stewardship and cultural understandings.
The first film, Sweetgrass Relations, shares intimate recollections of generational knowledge on the stewardship and cultural significance of Sweetgrass as a non-human relative in Wabanaki lifeways.
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Sweetgrass Histories traces histories of land access and the continued struggle for Gatherers’ access to salt marshes along Wabanaki waterways ad well as the longitudinal predominance of basket-making in Wabanaki culture.
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The final film in the trilogy, Sweetgrass Futures, contemplates cultural appropriation, passing on Sweetgrass cultural knowledge to children and reasserts the ongoing responsibility of Wabanaki people to steward Sweetgrass for future generations.
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