Join us for a webinar by Carrie Cannon, Ethnobotanist for the Hualapai Tribe’s Department of Cultural Resources. Including subspecies and varieties there are nearly 300 mescal agave species in the world native to the Southwest United States,  Mexico, other parts of Central America, and the Caribbean.  The agave plant was and continues to used by Native peoples for numerous utilitarian items. Mescal has served as a valuable food source still being harvested and prepared to this day by many Indigenous groups. For millennia people have pit roasted the heart of the plant yielding a nutritious food staple. This talk includes the life history of mescal agave, and the multitude of Tribal uses of this intriguing plant from centuries ago to the modern era.

About The Speaker:

Carrie is a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma and is also of Oglala Lakota and German ancestry. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Biology, and an M.S. in Resource Management. She began working for the Hualapai Tribe of Peach Springs, Arizona 20 years ago where she initiated the creation of an intergenerational ethnobotany program for the Hualapai community together with tribal elders and youth. She administers a number of projects promoting the intergenerational teaching of Hualapai ethnobotanical knowledge working towards preservation and revitalization to ensure tribal ethnobotanical knowledge persists as a living practice and tradition.

For the month of October, we’re celebrating OAK-tober Fest—a tribute to the deep connections between plants and people. Don’t miss our upcoming webinar on the Ethnobotany of Succulents, with a special discount when you register for it alongside “Mescal Agave Use in Arizona” (see COMBO ticket below). Those opting for the COMBO ticket after the October 1 release of the first webinar, will receive a link to both webinars on October 23.   Explore more OAK-tober events happening all October long here. 

Please note that this will be a live Zoom lecture and not a lecture at the Garden. After registration (see below), you’ll receive a Zoom link one day prior to the lecture.

How it works: Register one person with one email at a time. If you would like to register multiple people, please register them each separately with separate emails.  The webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a recording link within one business day.  Once the recording is sent, you will have seven days to watch the lecture. Access to the webinar recordings after the expiration date will be a charge of $15 (members) / $32 (non-members).

Cancellation and refund policy can be found here.