Smudging, gardening and art: Students flourish in Indigenous STEAM camp

Smudging, gardening and art: Students flourish in Indigenous STEAM camp

Siena Braun led her second- and third-grade summer students into the garden behind Anishinabe Academy in south Minneapolis. Squash tendrils climbed the trellises; tobacco plants bloomed; sweetgrass sagged under last night’s rain; and sage plants filled part of a raised bed. “My lovely friends, do you have something you want to say about the sage over here?” Braun asked her students. “Sage is medicine for all people, and sage is to make you calm …