ESCANABA — Bay de Noc Community College is offering a new community education course that offers insights to and the relationship between plants and the natural world and Anishinaabe beliefs and language. This course in Escanaba will introduce indigenous ways of knowing and an understanding of how language is essential to guiding that knowledge. Kristy Phillips, Citizen Band Potawatomi and Lumbee descendent, trained biologist and a Potawatomi language instructor, has long been committed to teaching people about the importance of plants through a holistic, indigenous world view.

The class will meet four times: Tuesday, May 7, 14, and 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. the Math Science Building, room 123, and on Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with honored elder and teacher Mary Moose. This final class will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the HUB. Moose will be offering teachings on plants. The course has a registration fee which allows participants to attend all four sessions.

For more information, contact Amy Reddinger, dean of arts and sciences, at (906) 217-4068 or amy.reddinger@baycollege.edu. To register, go to ­https://mytraining.baycollege.edu/coursedisplay.cfm?schID=1486