Native American Biography: Rowen White: Seed Keeper

Rowen White is a Native American woman, Mohawk from Akwesasne.  She is now the educational director  of Sierra Seeds out of Nevada City, California.  She works at discovering ancestral seeds and how they relate to culture and ancestry.  She has taken a journey of rediscovering seeds, and keeping seeds for the next crop.  This includes singing the seed songs and doing the work to care for plant relatives.  She has worked with the Mohawk people but ogther cultures as well.  She says seeds offer healing, and mutual benefit between cultures.   Seeds play a part in revitalizing culture.  In 2023 she received a leadership award.