Jane Mount Pleasant (born c. 1950) is an American agricultural scientist and associate professor emerita at Cornell University.
Her mother was of European descent, and her father, a factory foreman, was Tuscarora.
She briefly studied political science at American University in Washington, D.C., before dropping out and finding work in New York City as a taxi driver and union shop steward.
Mount Pleasant joined the faculty at Cornell in 1987, where she taught horticulture and directed the university's American Indian studies program.
Specifically, she has studied the Three Sisters method of growing corn, beans, and squash together to enhance productivity and soil fertility.