Cecelia Brooks Teaches About Traditional Foods and Medicines
An article at cbc.ca by Jennifer Sweet
Posted July 29, 2021 Link here
Cecilia Brooks is an elder of Wolastoqey, Mi'kmaq, Mohawk and Korean ancestry who calls St. Mary's First Nation home. She specializes in traditional plant knowledge.
Brooks grew up in different countries because her dad was in the U.S. military. He was her first teacher of traditional Wolastoqey knowledge, but she got her first taste of foraging from her Korean mom.
She… met Albert Marshall, the Mi'kmaw elder who developed the concept of two-eyed seeing. Two-eyed seeing means considering things from more than one perspective, such as through the double lenses of Indigenous knowledge and western science.
That's exactly what Brooks does.