Trickster Center in Schaumburg receives grant for video series

The Trickster Cultural Center in Schaumburg has received $50,000 as part of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation's "Broadening Narratives" grant to create a series of videos that document the traditional use of plants in Native American healing and wellness practices.

The project will interview Native elders on practices unique to their communities, as well as document the planting, maintenance and harvesting of a medicine garden.

The videos, when completed, will be made available on Trickster's website.

"We are grateful to the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation for helping us inform the general public about traditional Native American plant medicine, and to be able to share this knowledge and cultural practices with our community," Trickster Center CEO Joseph Podlasek said. "This project supports our vision of serving as an authentic first voice of Native American veterans and cultural arts."