Sitting 5-5:30pm, Dharma Talk, Conversation, Group Discussion
Jaune Evans and Dr. Melissa K. Nelson
This next Wednesday, October 5, in preparation for Everyday Zen’s second annual honoring of Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, October 10, Everyday Zen offers a dharma talk and conversation shared by Dr. Melissa K. Nelson and senior priest, Jaune Evans.
Dr. Nelson, whose Native American ancestry is Anishinaabe/Metis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa, serves as a professor of Indigenous Sustainability at Arizona State University and long-term leader at the San Francisco-based Cultural Conservancy. She is an ecologist, activist and educator dedicated to Indigenous rights and revitalization, Native land rematriation, decolonizing philanthropy, and the health of Mother Earth. She is also a founding board member of the Sogorea Te Land Trust and bundle holder for the Native American Academy and advisor to several Native-led philanthropic funds.
