Jennifer Martin
Healing Spirits Gardener,Lummi Tribal Health Clinic

Jenny Martin is an enrolled Citizen of the Cherokee Nation and attended Northwest Indian College (NWIC), a Tribal College on the Lummi Nation Reservation where she completed her BS degree in Native Environmental Science, with a special emphasis in ethnobotany and Indigenous knowledge systems. She then completed an MA in Culture and Colonialism while studying the Irish language and Cherokee (Tsalagi) language at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her thesis focused on traditions of Indigenous intellectualism and Indigenous pedagogies. 

Understanding how culture, language and non-human relations influence Indigenous health and sense of self is an ongoing passion for Jenny. She currently works at the Lummi Tribal Health Clinic as the Healing Spirits Gardener through the Diabetes Prevention Program. 
 

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