Angie Comeaux (she/her), Co-Director of the Braiding Seeds Fellowship, is of Mvskoke, Cherokee, Chahta, and French Creole descent, and belongs to Kvnfvske etvlwv, where she is Nokosvlke clan mother. Angie was born and raised in Bvlbancha, currently living and farming in south Alabama, in her ancestral Mvskoke homelands. She is a founding member of both Bvlbancha Collective and Okla Hina Ikhish Holo, two Indigenous Southeastern femme and non-binary collectives working in mutual aid, medicine, and food sovereignty, and rebuilding ancestral trade routes. Angie is a seed grower, was student in the inaugural cohort of the Ira Wallace Seed School, and a volunteer on the Kurt Bridges Heritage Seed Project. She is a 2022-2023 fellow with the Soul Fire Farm Braiding Seeds fellowship. In 2023 Angie completed Clinical Herbal Practitioner school with the Appalachian Center for Natural Health and 4th year of herbal medicine courses. Angie was recently awarded the 2024 Environmental Leader Award by the Center for Rural Affairs.Â
Most importantly, Angie is the founder of Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv (Hummingbird Springs) Farm, a fallow 120-year-old peanut farm that she, her partner, and community are transitioning into an Indigenous food forest. Between 2022-2023, Angie and her community planted over 2,000 native trees at Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv Farm. They are also stewarding ruminants, poultry, equine, and a huge range of native and culturally significant plants. The goal at Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv Farm is to fully reclaim and resurrect Indigenous agricultural practices that have been sleeping and to welcome those practices back to their homelands. The mission of Hvrvnrvcukwv Ueki-honecv is to show what Indigenous sovereignty truly looks like, to be a living example of what prioritizing community care and the needs of the land can achieve, and to show that when we listen to the land and the land’s original stewards, we can not only heal our communities but thrive. Angie feels that it is necessary that we bring the songs, the language, and our lifeways back home. It is vital that we build our future in right relationship with the land and with one another.