Three Sisters with One Dish Project with Sha'tekayenton Brant at the Deseronto Public Library

Monday, July 13th from 10:30 am to 11:30am

The Deseronto Public Library welcomes Sha'tekayenton Brant from the One Dish Project for a workshop that explores the origins and teachings of the Three Sisters through Haudenosaunee understandings of responsibility, sustainability, reciprocity, and relationship to the land. Participants are introduced to the Creation Story with a focus on the origins of Indigenous foods and the role of corn, beans, and squash within Haudenosaunee food systems.

The workshop examines the relationship between the Three Sisters and the interconnected ecosystem they create together, while comparing Indigenous agricultural practices to Western-style gardening systems. Participants learn how the Three Sisters support one another naturally through structure, soil health, moisture retention, and protection, and how these approaches differ from colonial agricultural models introduced onto Turtle Island.

Using The River as Teacher framework, the workshop also explores how colonization disrupted Indigenous food systems, altered agricultural practices, and separated communities from traditional relationships with land and food. Discussion emphasizes the importance of cultural food systems, sustainability, and the restoration of Indigenous growing practices within contemporary learning spaces.

During planting season, participants are guided through the planting process and each participant plants a white corn seed while also receiving a bean seed and squash seed to take home.

Details are available on the Deseronto Public Library website.