{"id":32249,"date":"2022-06-16T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/?p=32249"},"modified":"2022-06-20T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:56:00","slug":"elder-duke-redbird-draws-on-the-wisdom-of-mother-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/2022\/06\/16\/elder-duke-redbird-draws-on-the-wisdom-of-mother-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Duke Redbird draws on the wisdom of Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Elder-Duke-Redbird-Featured-image-for-YFile-1024x341-1.jpg\" alt=\"Honorary Doctorate recipient Elder Duke Redbird at convocation\" class=\"wp-image-32250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Elder-Duke-Redbird-Featured-image-for-YFile-1024x341-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Elder-Duke-Redbird-Featured-image-for-YFile-1024x341-1-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>During the Faculty of Education convocation ceremony for the Class of 2022 that took place on June 10, Indigenous Elder Duke Redbird delivered a moving and passionate address about Mother Earth, strawberries and universities, and the enduring spirit of a mentor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The month of June is National Indigenous History Month and in the Indigenous calendar it is also Ode Miin Giizus or Strawberry Moon. June is also a time of new beginnings for York University students as they receive their degrees and embark on the next stage in their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it was fitting that during Ode Miin Giizus, the renowned poet, actor, journalist and Indigenous Elder, <strong>Duke Redbird<\/strong> (MA \u201978), returned to York University to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. In his convocation address that he delivered through poetry and a story, Elder Redbird spoke of the importance of strawberries, universities, the nourishment that knowledge provides and the enduring spirit of a mentor to a young strawberry heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"376\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Duke-Redbird-with-chancellor-and-president.jpg\" alt=\"From left: York University Chancellor Gregory Sorbara, Elder Duke Redbird, and York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton\" class=\"wp-image-32251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Duke-Redbird-with-chancellor-and-president.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Duke-Redbird-with-chancellor-and-president-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><figcaption>Above, from left: York University Chancellor Gregory Sorbara, Elder Duke Redbird, and York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Elder Redbird began by reciting his celebrated poem \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dukeredbird.ca\/poetry\" target=\"_blank\">Our Mother The Earth<\/a>,\u201d which speaks to the essential sustenance and love that Mother Earth provides to all living creatures and the importance of sustaining and protecting her against the perils of climate change. With this poetic setting in place, Elder Redbird, in acknowledgement of Ode Miin Giizus, observed that \u201cthe strawberry is shaped like a heart. This fruit is associated with the teaching of \u2018truth.\u2019 And unlike every other fruit, the seeds of the strawberries are on the surface, and we humans, like these seeds, occupy the surface of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that universities could also be described as strawberries of knowledge \u201cthat require the human heart with the desire for the truth to be nourishing and successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to his own strawberry heart, he told the story of how in 1975, he was interviewed by York University politics Professor <strong>Ed Dosman<\/strong> (now professor emeritus) for his research on Indigenous life and culture. For the young Redbird, who was then 36 years old, Dosman\u2019s interview was one of many he had completed with academics who were researching Indigenous Peoples. \u201cI was regarded as a primitive source at the worst, and a layman without a formal education at best,\u201d said Elder Redbird, noting the interviews that quoted him were then used by researchers to acquire degrees and publish papers and yet his knowledge, which was so freely and truthfully shared, was not credited or cited as a source, a visceral concern he relayed to Dosman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After this conversation, Dosman introduced Redbird to <strong>David Bell<\/strong>, then a professor in both political science and environmental studies at York University and a globally recognized expert in learning for a sustainable future. Dosman and Bell offered to sponsor Redbird as a mature student to pursue a master\u2019s degree. \u201cWith the support of Professor <strong>Christopher Innis<\/strong>, the founder of the master\u2019s degree program in Interdisciplinary Studies at York University, I was accepted as a candidate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the years that followed, enriched with the gifts of knowledge, friendship and mentorship from Bell, the young Redbird\u2019s strawberry heart was nourished and ripened. \u201cOn a June day, much like today in 1978, 44 years ago, I was the only recipient of a master\u2019s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University,\u201d said Elder Redbird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades later, it was with a full strawberry heart that Elder Redbird once again turned to Bell. \u201cDr. David Bell passed in 2017. I wrote \u2018Our Mother The Earth\u2019 in 2020 during COVID-19. In my heart of hearts, I choose to believe that my friend David Bell co-authored the poem with me and was there in spirit when I recited it to a global audience last fall at the COP26 conference on Global Warming.\u201d Poetry like science share many of the same insights and create new ways of thinking about the world, said Elder Redbird, who credited the theoretical physicist Carlos Rovelli with the original comparison. Elder Redbird asked the graduands to nourish their own hearts and minds by thinking of \u201cnature as an Earth verse, like the Universe written by the Creator as beautiful, epic poem to embrace our spirits with love throughout our lifetimes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Duke-Redbird-on-the-convocation-stage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32252\" width=\"796\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Duke-Redbird-on-the-convocation-stage.jpg 708w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/06\/Duke-Redbird-on-the-convocation-stage-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><figcaption>Elder Duke Redbird delivers his convocation address to graduands of the Faculty of 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