Izhi-Minoging Mashkikiwan / Place Where Medicines Grow Well – Cheboiganing Burt Lake Band’s Healing Garden
Zoom presentation by Eva Roos, Landscape Architect, Saiki Design
March 17, 2025
6:30 – 8:00 pm (ET)
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Izhi-Minoging Mashkikiwan, Place Where Medicines Grow Well, is the Cheboiganing Burt Lake Band’s healing garden located at their office headquarters in Brutus, MI. This garden features over 40 species of Great Lakes native plants arranged to symbolically represent the Ojibwe Medicine Wheel and Anishinaabe beadwork. The Band worked with former University of Michigan graduate student and present day landscape architect, Eva Roos, on the design and installation both the healing garden and the greater headquarters landscape. In this presentation, Eva will share about the design and installation process, symbolism embedded within the garden, ecological benefits of chosen plants, and lessons learned from the garden.
Eva Roos is a landscape architect at Saiki Design in Madison, WI. During her summers, she co-directs an interdisciplinary humanities program at the University of Michigan Biological Station called Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments (GLACE). She received her Master of Landscape Architecture and Master of Science in Conservation Ecology from University of Michigan in 2021. Initiated during graduate school and continued to present, she works with the Cheboiganing Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians on the landscape design and healing garden for the tribe’s headquarters in Brutus, MI. In spring 2024, the Cheboiganing Burt Lake Band granted her Honorary Tribal Membership. She looks forward to a lifetime of planting, healing, and partnership with the Band.