Dr. Esme G. Murdock is a philosopher and Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. Her research interests include environmental justice, Indigenous and Afro-descended environmental ethics, settler colonial theory, and decolonization as land/resource rematriation. Murdock comes to this work as a descendant of enslaved Africans and European settlers in North America. She is currently completing a book length manuscript tentatively titled “Blood, Bone, and Land: Land Memory Across Enslavements,” which is a project on ecological (re)memory of the South Carolina Sea Coast that engages in the diverse and often erased ecological histories, ecological heritages, ethnobotanical knowledges, and complex relations of Indigenous and Afro-descended peoples within the colonial complex of multiple European powers. Her presentation will focus on aspects of this project, specifically the cosmological significance of trees within memory work around enslavement and plantation spaces across Native American and African American traditions.