Serviceberry Circle: Exploring abundance and reciprocity in our community and everyday lives.

This important panel led community discussion on how to apply the ideas of abundance & reciprocity presented in Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, to our community and in our everyday lives.  Join Carole Nash, Victoria Ferguson, of the Monacan Indian Nation, and Meghan Williamson, in conversation exploring the abundance and reciprocity we can find and contribute to in the Shenandoah Valley.

Carole Nash, Ph.D., RPA, is honored to study the archaeology, ethnohistory, and historical ecology of the Appalachian Mountains and is

grateful to collaborate with citizens of Virginia’s Native American communities, especially the Monacan Nation. Professor in the School of Integrated Sciences, she has taught at James Madison University for 37 years. She chairs JMU’s Native American and Indigenous Working Group and is a

founding member of the Virginia Indigenous Nations in Higher Education collective. She and her students maintain a long-term research program in the Virginia Blue Ridge, where…