She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. In 2022 she was named a MacArthur Fellow.Īs a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. Robin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. In 2022, Braiding Sweetgrass was adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim.
The New York Times.…is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. "New Report Describes Events Surrounding New Mexico Prison Riot"."Political Game Snares Becknell" New Mexican Opinion Cowboy in the Roundhouse: A Political Life. "The Penitentiary in Crisis:From Accommodation to Riot in New Mexico, State University of New York Press. "The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot." Social Problems 29. (2003) "No Challenge, No Change: Growing Up Black in New Mexico" Jubilee Publications. He died on November 13, 2009, in Stanley, New Mexico, at the age of 85. King was recovering from a procedure in September 2009 to adjust the pacemaker that was implanted after he had a heart attack in 1997. Their son Gary King served as New Mexico Attorney General from 2007 to 2015 and was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2014. King was married to his wife Alice for 61 years until her death on December 7, 2008. JSTOR ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. "New Mexico's Governor Bruce King refused to declare that the region was a federal disaster area." Inside the Navajo Church Rock Nuclear Disaster, the largest radioactive disaster in US history that's somehow often forgotten King became the first governor who could succeed himself after the term limit laws were changed and ran for reelection in 1994, but was defeated for a fourth term by Republican businessman Gary Johnson. His terms were non-consecutive because the New Mexico constitution did not allow governors to succeed themselves before 1991, due to term limits. He served as the 23rd, 25th and 28th Governor of New Mexico from 1971 until 1975, 1979 until 1983 and from 1991 until 1995.
In 1970, King was elected as governor, defeating Republican Pete Domenici. ( August 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭounty results of the 1990 New Mexico gubernatorial election King with Margaret Lefranc in 1992. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. In 1969, he was also the president of the State Constitutional Convention. From 1968-69, King was chairman of the state Democratic Party. He served five consecutive terms in the House and during three of his terms he was Speaker of the House. In 1959, he was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives. He was re-elected and served as the chairman of the board during his second term. King's career in politics began when he was elected to the Santa Fe Board of County Commissioners in 1954. After the war, he attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. King was born on April 6, 1924, in Stanley, New Mexico. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the longest-serving governor in New Mexico history, with 12 years of service.Įarly life, education, and early political career Bruce King (Ap– November 13, 2009) was an American businessman and politician who for three non-consecutive four-year terms was the governor of New Mexico.
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