Patty Loew helps coordinate ceremonial tobacco plants at UW
LSC Professor Patty Loew works extensively with Native communities in Wisconsin. She is co-leading the Native Nations Initiative between UW–Madison, UW-Extension and UW Colleges, and she co-founded the Tribal Youth Media Initiative with fellow LSC faculty member Don Stanley, among other projects. While spending time in tribal communities Loew often gifts asema, or ceremonial tobacco, to elders …