During the summer of 2017, UIC Heritage Garden Interns worked with members of the American Indian Chicago community to develop a scrapbook. This creative project catalogues central themes of our Shikaakwa garden satellite, located East of Lecture Center E. The scrapbook presents stories from the community, collected by the UIC Heritage Garden interns, to provide a popular education approach to learning about native plants and their relationship to Indigenous people in the Midwest.

The Shikaakwa scrapbook is an ongoing educational project that highlights the connection between cultural heritage, environmental sustainability, and social justice. The UIC Heritage garden acknowledges that the Shikaakwa garden is on indigenous land, although now known as the UIC campus.

The physical copy of the scrapbook is located in the UIC Latino Cultural Center and we invite you to visit and see it for yourself!