Melanie arranged a tour of the Botanic Garden with her teacher at SIPI for the other 5 students in their Natural Resources Program today. I brought along a copy of Watkins' 1886 paper on Navajo plants and their names. Turns out it uses a older style of transliteration that was difficult for the one Diné native speaker to read. Perhaps there's a project out there to update this information and connect SIPI with the Botanic Garden.
We spent a good bit of time in the herbarium out by the HDRG. That leads to discussions about biodiversity, ecology, sustainability, endangered species, and even careers in botany.
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