Online Class and Curriculum: Hemp The New Green Revolution
Boozhoo! Hello and Welcome! We would like to invite Indigenous farmers, tribal college students, and others to our first online hemp class.
Introduction to hemp will provide students with an overview of the plant, from the seed to clothing, housing, and food.
The fully online class includes instructors from the fields, to the universities and businesses and is intended to provide background materials for better decision making and to link farmers to seeds as well as regulations.
Hemp has a long, global history, and even though the United States Government has outlawed its growth and production since the 1950s, it has recently begun to make a comeback within the United States. This is a course about the potential of hemp, and how Indigenous farmers and nations are embracing this new economy.
Meeting weekly for ten weeks, the class will inform students, and allow for dialogue on the opportunity for Cannabis Sativa can transform our materials economy, our textiles economy, return carbon to the soil, be a central material in sustainable housing, provide health and well-being, and be a path to restorative justice.
Featuring guest speakers and links to materials, the class will provide an opportunity to better understand present hemp regulations and additional regulations for tribal producers nationally as well, since hemp policies are emerging at many levels this is an excellent opportunity to review equitable hemp and cannabis policies.
Course Format:
This course is offered fully online. Course materials, including assigned reading and videos, are offered on Google Classroom.
The class will start on February 15 and run until April 27. It will be on Tuesday afternoons from 4pm-6pm CST over Zoom.
Class periods consist of lectures, discussions, and videos. Work outside of class involves weekly reading, written assignments, and discussion posts.
Online Class and Curriculum: Hemp The New Green Revolution Hemp 101
Concepts: Overview of the History of Hemp uses, Industrial hemp, cannabis prohibition, the current status of cannabis legalization and cannabis use in the U.S. and across Indian country.
What we know as Hemp, (Cannabis Sativa, Indica) was first written about in Indochina almost five thousand years ago (2800 BCE) and plant material has been found that is believed to be almost 8000 years old. Proving useful as a medicine as well as giving strong long fibers from the stalks the plant was useful, cultivated, and seeds were shared and traveled and were exchanged. Knowledge and writing of hemp cultivation have all but disappeared due to criminalization. This is a brief history of the cold case of the hemp industry, and one entrepreneur’s experiences looking for clues to the hemp industry’s path to rebuild that industry now.
Course Format:
This course is offered fully online. Course materials, including assigned reading and videos, are offered on Google Classroom.
The class will start on February 15 and run until April 27. It will be on Tuesday afternoons from 4pm-6pm CST over Zoom.
Class periods consist of lectures, discussions, and videos. Work outside of class involves weekly reading, written assignments, and discussion posts.