#indigenouswisdom — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #indigenouswisdom, aggregated by home.social.
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It's time to sit down and be a good listener to the peoples who were already here when we arrived. #IndigenousWisdom #LANDBACK
Where All Women Are Honored -
95% of Europe ran above average temps in 2025. Glaciers aren’t retreating—they’re vacating. The Alps keep receipts longer than regimes that lit the matches. Washington guts NOAA and calls truth “unconstitutional.”
Read the full reckoning here: https://twp.ai/4hr4K1
Anail an domhain. The breath of the earth moves slower than your panic. Match it.
#ClimateEmergency #AlpineIce #IndigenousWisdom #HerbalHealing #BaldwinVoice -
95% of Europe ran above average temps in 2025. Glaciers aren’t retreating—they’re vacating. The Alps keep receipts longer than regimes that lit the matches. Washington guts NOAA and calls truth “unconstitutional.”
Read the full reckoning here: https://twp.ai/4hr4K1
Anail an domhain. The breath of the earth moves slower than your panic. Match it.
#ClimateEmergency #AlpineIce #IndigenousWisdom #HerbalHealing #BaldwinVoice -
95% of Europe ran above average temps in 2025. Glaciers aren’t retreating—they’re vacating. The Alps keep receipts longer than regimes that lit the matches. Washington guts NOAA and calls truth “unconstitutional.”
Read the full reckoning here: https://twp.ai/4hr4K1
Anail an domhain. The breath of the earth moves slower than your panic. Match it.
#ClimateEmergency #AlpineIce #IndigenousWisdom #HerbalHealing #BaldwinVoice -
95% of Europe ran above average temps in 2025. Glaciers aren’t retreating—they’re vacating. The Alps keep receipts longer than regimes that lit the matches. Washington guts NOAA and calls truth “unconstitutional.”
Read the full reckoning here: https://twp.ai/4hr4K1
Anail an domhain. The breath of the earth moves slower than your panic. Match it.
#ClimateEmergency #AlpineIce #IndigenousWisdom #HerbalHealing #BaldwinVoice -
95% of Europe ran above average temps in 2025. Glaciers aren’t retreating—they’re vacating. The Alps keep receipts longer than regimes that lit the matches. Washington guts NOAA and calls truth “unconstitutional.”
Read the full reckoning here: https://twp.ai/4hr4K1
Anail an domhain. The breath of the earth moves slower than your panic. Match it.
#ClimateEmergency #AlpineIce #IndigenousWisdom #HerbalHealing #BaldwinVoice -
Virtual Event - #BookDiscussion of “The #Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”
February 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
"Join us for a virtual book discussion of 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,' by #RobinWallKimmerer.
Free. Registration Required."
About the author:
"As Indigenous scientist and author of #BraidingSweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from #IndigenousWisdom and the plant world to #reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, #interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, 'Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.' "FMI and to register:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/book-discussion-of-the-serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-in-the-natural-world/#SolarPunkSunday #MOFGA #TheServiceBerryBook #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousFood #Foraging #Nature #EthicalHarvest #HonourableHarvest
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Virtual Event - #BookDiscussion of “The #Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”
February 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
"Join us for a virtual book discussion of 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,' by #RobinWallKimmerer.
Free. Registration Required."
About the author:
"As Indigenous scientist and author of #BraidingSweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from #IndigenousWisdom and the plant world to #reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, #interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, 'Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.' "FMI and to register:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/book-discussion-of-the-serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-in-the-natural-world/#SolarPunkSunday #MOFGA #TheServiceBerryBook #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousFood #Foraging #Nature #EthicalHarvest #HonourableHarvest
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Virtual Event - #BookDiscussion of “The #Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”
February 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
"Join us for a virtual book discussion of 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,' by #RobinWallKimmerer.
Free. Registration Required."
About the author:
"As Indigenous scientist and author of #BraidingSweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from #IndigenousWisdom and the plant world to #reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, #interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, 'Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.' "FMI and to register:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/book-discussion-of-the-serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-in-the-natural-world/#SolarPunkSunday #MOFGA #TheServiceBerryBook #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousFood #Foraging #Nature #EthicalHarvest #HonourableHarvest
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Virtual Event - #BookDiscussion of “The #Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”
February 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
"Join us for a virtual book discussion of 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,' by #RobinWallKimmerer.
Free. Registration Required."
About the author:
"As Indigenous scientist and author of #BraidingSweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from #IndigenousWisdom and the plant world to #reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, #interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, 'Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.' "FMI and to register:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/book-discussion-of-the-serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-in-the-natural-world/#SolarPunkSunday #MOFGA #TheServiceBerryBook #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousFood #Foraging #Nature #EthicalHarvest #HonourableHarvest
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Virtual Event - #BookDiscussion of “The #Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World”
February 12 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
"Join us for a virtual book discussion of 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,' by #RobinWallKimmerer.
Free. Registration Required."
About the author:
"As Indigenous scientist and author of #BraidingSweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from #IndigenousWisdom and the plant world to #reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, #interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, 'Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.' "FMI and to register:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/book-discussion-of-the-serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-in-the-natural-world/#SolarPunkSunday #MOFGA #TheServiceBerryBook #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousFood #Foraging #Nature #EthicalHarvest #HonourableHarvest
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Lakota philosophy refers to money as "Green Frog Skin"—a poignant warning against mistaking a medium of exchange for the life force it represents.
After 40 years in accounting and finance, I see the same pattern in organizational life: a "pleonexia" where the pursuit of more drives out actual meaning.
I’m exploring these intersections of wisdom traditions and modern business.
https://terraphilosophica.substack.com/p/green-frog-skin
#Philosophy #Ethics #Theology #IndigenousWisdom #BusinessEthics -
Lakota philosophy refers to money as "Green Frog Skin"—a poignant warning against mistaking a medium of exchange for the life force it represents.
After 40 years in accounting and finance, I see the same pattern in organizational life: a "pleonexia" where the pursuit of more drives out actual meaning.
I’m exploring these intersections of wisdom traditions and modern business.
https://terraphilosophica.substack.com/p/green-frog-skin
#Philosophy #Ethics #Theology #IndigenousWisdom #BusinessEthics -
This morning's #workout #music is from Jasmine.4.t - new to me. Nice song writing with positive vibes. Stick around for the discussion of #TransRights and #indigenousWisdom
https://youtu.be/qucMEt0mF5Y
#WomenInMusic #Folk #Rock #Pop #KettleBells #MobilityTraining -
This morning's #workout #music is from Jasmine.4.t - new to me. Nice song writing with positive vibes. Stick around for the discussion of #TransRights and #indigenousWisdom
https://youtu.be/qucMEt0mF5Y
#WomenInMusic #Folk #Rock #Pop #KettleBells #MobilityTraining -
Big congratulations to RTBC Contributing Editor Michaela Haas! Her story about the Hopi and sustainable crop growth has won the Solutions Journalism category in the LA Press Club's Journalism Awards.
Indigenous knowledge is valuable! #IndigenousWisdom #Sustainability
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Kaleiheana Stormcrow shares a visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about consciousness, water, and the cycles of life. #IndigenousWisdom #HawaiianSpirituality #Consciousness #DeathAndRebirth #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualWriting #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/what-death-and-the-water-speak-of/ -
Kaleiheana Stormcrow shares a visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about consciousness, water, and the cycles of life. #IndigenousWisdom #HawaiianSpirituality #Consciousness #DeathAndRebirth #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualWriting #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/what-death-and-the-water-speak-of/ -
Kaleiheana Stormcrow shares a visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about consciousness, water, and the cycles of life. #IndigenousWisdom #HawaiianSpirituality #Consciousness #DeathAndRebirth #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualWriting #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/what-death-and-the-water-speak-of/ -
Kaleiheana Stormcrow shares a visionary encounter with death and the spirit realm, weaving Hawaiian ancestral wisdom with personal revelation about consciousness, water, and the cycles of life. #IndigenousWisdom #HawaiianSpirituality #Consciousness #DeathAndRebirth #AncestralWisdom #SpiritualWriting #Metapsychosis
https://metapsychosis.com/what-death-and-the-water-speak-of/ -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwg4z7MaxTY @[email protected]
"How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge | TGS 181"
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It is TOO EARLY for local currencies, but THE TIME IS RIPE for _local food Initiatives_
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Thought regarding "Treat others as you will that they treat you":
Harming ourselves harms those held onto us, so treat yourself as others wish you to benefit.
Thinking about how smoking tobacco impacts myself and others, too.
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BUTTTTT I refuse to initiate works on the Hawai'ian islands. That is criminally ceded native land. I will, however, do what I can to help native Hawai'ians to build up their own co-op
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Re: "Fuel (Concept)"
Fossil Fuel, Natural/Greenhouse Gas, Coal — DIRTY Fuel (not energy until consumed).
Sunlight, Water- & Air-flow, Heat Gradients, Biodiesel (recycled from organic wastes) — CLEAN Fuel.
We need to divest from the color-coding of Good v Bad.
Greenwashing and whitewashing, if inverted, become "red washing" and "black washing". Neither of those sounds pleasant to the Western superpsyche bc of racist histories.
If we can lessen color-association with health, we free ourselves from the biases implanted in us that encourage us to pursue false advertising.
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The underlying message:
Local, local, local;
Local. Local. Local.
LOCAL! LOCAL! LOCAL!
#Communities---
Lol George Washington was right: premature internationalization is a mistake (though not a fault)
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I WANT TO START A SCHOOL FOR Farming, Technology, Medicine.
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I would really like to work with you to build a chart of our local ecological dependencies:
I.e., upon which other forms of life do the lifeforms in our ecological habitats depend?
By fortifying the bases of the transespecial fuel chain, we secure our environment and assure both nature and ourselves of success and succession.
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The 5 Rs:
Reconnect (to others as primary, and to nature — practical and spiritual).
Rethink.
Resist.
Renew.
Rejoice.Study HEALTHY people, not only the traumatized.
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"The biggest Poverty now is Time Poverty."
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TAGS: #TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Superorgaism #Metacrisis #Metaconversatiom #Localization #Community #Economy #localCurrencies #localFood #goldenRule #PlatinumRule #safeRule #indigenousWisdom #IndigenousMutualAid #Fuel #Coal #Gasoline #naturalGas #Whitewashing #Greenwashing #Farming #Ecology #Medicine #Technology #Dependencies #Lifeform #FoodChain #Success #Succession #reconnect #rethink #resist #renew #rejoice #Joy #Faith #Humanism #Kantianism #theLightTriad #Health #Trauma #Poverty #Cooperative #Charity #Charitas #Charism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwg4z7MaxTY @[email protected]
"How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge | TGS 181"
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It is TOO EARLY for local currencies, but THE TIME IS RIPE for _local food Initiatives_
---
Thought regarding "Treat others as you will that they treat you":
Harming ourselves harms those held onto us, so treat yourself as others wish you to benefit.
Thinking about how smoking tobacco impacts myself and others, too.
---
[...]
BUTTTTT I refuse to initiate works on the Hawai'ian islands. That is criminally ceded native land. I will, however, do what I can to help native Hawai'ians to build up their own co-op
---
Re: "Fuel (Concept)"
Fossil Fuel, Natural/Greenhouse Gas, Coal — DIRTY Fuel (not energy until consumed).
Sunlight, Water- & Air-flow, Heat Gradients, Biodiesel (recycled from organic wastes) — CLEAN Fuel.
We need to divest from the color-coding of Good v Bad.
Greenwashing and whitewashing, if inverted, become "red washing" and "black washing". Neither of those sounds pleasant to the Western superpsyche bc of racist histories.
If we can lessen color-association with health, we free ourselves from the biases implanted in us that encourage us to pursue false advertising.
---
The underlying message:
Local, local, local;
Local. Local. Local.
LOCAL! LOCAL! LOCAL!
#Communities---
Lol George Washington was right: premature internationalization is a mistake (though not a fault)
---
I WANT TO START A SCHOOL FOR Farming, Technology, Medicine.
---
I would really like to work with you to build a chart of our local ecological dependencies:
I.e., upon which other forms of life do the lifeforms in our ecological habitats depend?
By fortifying the bases of the transespecial fuel chain, we secure our environment and assure both nature and ourselves of success and succession.
---
The 5 Rs:
Reconnect (to others as primary, and to nature — practical and spiritual).
Rethink.
Resist.
Renew.
Rejoice.Study HEALTHY people, not only the traumatized.
---
"The biggest Poverty now is Time Poverty."
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TAGS: #TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Superorgaism #Metacrisis #Metaconversatiom #Localization #Community #Economy #localCurrencies #localFood #goldenRule #PlatinumRule #safeRule #indigenousWisdom #IndigenousMutualAid #Fuel #Coal #Gasoline #naturalGas #Whitewashing #Greenwashing #Farming #Ecology #Medicine #Technology #Dependencies #Lifeform #FoodChain #Success #Succession #reconnect #rethink #resist #renew #rejoice #Joy #Faith #Humanism #Kantianism #theLightTriad #Health #Trauma #Poverty #Cooperative #Charity #Charitas #Charism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwg4z7MaxTY @[email protected]
"How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge | TGS 181"
---
It is TOO EARLY for local currencies, but THE TIME IS RIPE for _local food Initiatives_
---
Thought regarding "Treat others as you will that they treat you":
Harming ourselves harms those held onto us, so treat yourself as others wish you to benefit.
Thinking about how smoking tobacco impacts myself and others, too.
---
[...]
BUTTTTT I refuse to initiate works on the Hawai'ian islands. That is criminally ceded native land. I will, however, do what I can to help native Hawai'ians to build up their own co-op
---
Re: "Fuel (Concept)"
Fossil Fuel, Natural/Greenhouse Gas, Coal — DIRTY Fuel (not energy until consumed).
Sunlight, Water- & Air-flow, Heat Gradients, Biodiesel (recycled from organic wastes) — CLEAN Fuel.
We need to divest from the color-coding of Good v Bad.
Greenwashing and whitewashing, if inverted, become "red washing" and "black washing". Neither of those sounds pleasant to the Western superpsyche bc of racist histories.
If we can lessen color-association with health, we free ourselves from the biases implanted in us that encourage us to pursue false advertising.
---
The underlying message:
Local, local, local;
Local. Local. Local.
LOCAL! LOCAL! LOCAL!
#Communities---
Lol George Washington was right: premature internationalization is a mistake (though not a fault)
---
I WANT TO START A SCHOOL FOR Farming, Technology, Medicine.
---
I would really like to work with you to build a chart of our local ecological dependencies:
I.e., upon which other forms of life do the lifeforms in our ecological habitats depend?
By fortifying the bases of the transespecial fuel chain, we secure our environment and assure both nature and ourselves of success and succession.
---
The 5 Rs:
Reconnect (to others as primary, and to nature — practical and spiritual).
Rethink.
Resist.
Renew.
Rejoice.Study HEALTHY people, not only the traumatized.
---
"The biggest Poverty now is Time Poverty."
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TAGS: #TheGreatSimplification #NateHagens #Superorgaism #Metacrisis #Metaconversatiom #Localization #Community #Economy #localCurrencies #localFood #goldenRule #PlatinumRule #safeRule #indigenousWisdom #IndigenousMutualAid #Fuel #Coal #Gasoline #naturalGas #Whitewashing #Greenwashing #Farming #Ecology #Medicine #Technology #Dependencies #Lifeform #FoodChain #Success #Succession #reconnect #rethink #resist #renew #rejoice #Joy #Faith #Humanism #Kantianism #theLightTriad #Health #Trauma #Poverty #Cooperative #Charity #Charitas #Charism
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Changing the Eurocentric narrative about the history of science – why multiculturalism matters
#IslamicHistory #IbnAlHaytham #HistoryOfScience #IslamicGoldenAge #Multiculturalism #Optics #Avicenna #IndigenousWisdom #AntiEurocentrism #ScienceHistory
https://the-14.com/changing-the-eurocentric-narrative-about-the-history-of-science-why-multiculturalism-matters/ -
Changing the Eurocentric narrative about the history of science – why multiculturalism matters
#IslamicHistory #IbnAlHaytham #HistoryOfScience #IslamicGoldenAge #Multiculturalism #Optics #Avicenna #IndigenousWisdom #AntiEurocentrism #ScienceHistory
https://the-14.com/changing-the-eurocentric-narrative-about-the-history-of-science-why-multiculturalism-matters/ -
Stories and Healing: Navigating Mental Health Through Cultural Diversity
#MentalHealth #CulturalChange #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #Pluralism #IndigenousWisdom #Psychotherapy #HolisticHealth #Diversity #Identity #MentalHealthAwareness #CulturalSensitivity #Curanderismo #BobbyWright #FrancesCressWelsing #CheikhAntaDiop #Compassion #Understanding #CelebrateDiversity
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Stories and Healing: Navigating Mental Health Through Cultural Diversity
#MentalHealth #CulturalChange #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #Pluralism #IndigenousWisdom #Psychotherapy #HolisticHealth #Diversity #Identity #MentalHealthAwareness #CulturalSensitivity #Curanderismo #BobbyWright #FrancesCressWelsing #CheikhAntaDiop #Compassion #Understanding #CelebrateDiversity
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Stories and Healing: Navigating Mental Health Through Cultural Diversity
#MentalHealth #CulturalChange #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #Pluralism #IndigenousWisdom #Psychotherapy #HolisticHealth #Diversity #Identity #MentalHealthAwareness #CulturalSensitivity #Curanderismo #BobbyWright #FrancesCressWelsing #CheikhAntaDiop #Compassion #Understanding #CelebrateDiversity
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Stories and Healing: Navigating Mental Health Through Cultural Diversity
#MentalHealth #CulturalChange #ChimamandaNgoziAdichie #Pluralism #IndigenousWisdom #Psychotherapy #HolisticHealth #Diversity #Identity #MentalHealthAwareness #CulturalSensitivity #Curanderismo #BobbyWright #FrancesCressWelsing #CheikhAntaDiop #Compassion #Understanding #CelebrateDiversity
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Though Johnson initially despised farming, he now embraces it as a practice passed down for some 2000 years. Proudly referring to himself as a 250th-generation Hopi farmer, Johnson's agricultural life is a testament to indigenous wisdom and resilience. #Heritage #IndigenousWisdom
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Though Johnson initially despised farming, he now embraces it as a practice passed down for some 2000 years. Proudly referring to himself as a 250th-generation Hopi farmer, Johnson's agricultural life is a testament to indigenous wisdom and resilience. #Heritage #IndigenousWisdom
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[Short film] #Ákhuin
Radio-JusSunná / Sunná Nousuniemi (#Sámi) & Guhtur Niillas Rita Duomis / Tuomas Kumpulainen with Ááná Jyyrki Sáárá-Máárjá / Saara-Maria Salonen
"With the singular Sámi oral storytelling tradition of joik at its center, ÁHKUIN is a visual and musical call-and-response between a grandmother and her descendants. Archival interviews and the joik of Maarit-áhkku (dir. Sunná Máret Nousuniemi’s grandmother) unspool as a connective thread across time, inviting the viewer through a portal into this corner of Sápmi. Here, the rhythms of time are set by the daily tasks that assured the survival of those who came before; seemingly mundane chores — carrying water from the river, setting up the sauna, boiling reindeer bone marrow — offer up gifts of memory, music, and Indigenous knowledge.
"As in Indigenous communities the world over, colonization has profoundly shaped recent Sámi history through stories of loss. Drawing aesthetic inspiration from sources as diverse as duodji (Sámi handicrafts and land-based knowledge systems), the work of David Lynch, Pauliina Peodoroff’s Matriarkaatti (Matriarchy), and the environmentally focused, community-based art of Niillas Holmberg, Jenni Laiti and Outi Pieski, ÁHKUIN presents a melancholy yet playful Sámi story with lessons for a new era defined by giving and receiving."
Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/ahkuin#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateCrisis #Nature #ProtectNature #LandBasedKnowledge #Sápmi #joik #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #OceansAreLife #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #ProtectTheSacred #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #duodji #colonization #Maaritáhkku #Matriarkaatti #Matriarchy #CulturalSurvival -
[Short film] #Ákhuin
Radio-JusSunná / Sunná Nousuniemi (#Sámi) & Guhtur Niillas Rita Duomis / Tuomas Kumpulainen with Ááná Jyyrki Sáárá-Máárjá / Saara-Maria Salonen
"With the singular Sámi oral storytelling tradition of joik at its center, ÁHKUIN is a visual and musical call-and-response between a grandmother and her descendants. Archival interviews and the joik of Maarit-áhkku (dir. Sunná Máret Nousuniemi’s grandmother) unspool as a connective thread across time, inviting the viewer through a portal into this corner of Sápmi. Here, the rhythms of time are set by the daily tasks that assured the survival of those who came before; seemingly mundane chores — carrying water from the river, setting up the sauna, boiling reindeer bone marrow — offer up gifts of memory, music, and Indigenous knowledge.
"As in Indigenous communities the world over, colonization has profoundly shaped recent Sámi history through stories of loss. Drawing aesthetic inspiration from sources as diverse as duodji (Sámi handicrafts and land-based knowledge systems), the work of David Lynch, Pauliina Peodoroff’s Matriarkaatti (Matriarchy), and the environmentally focused, community-based art of Niillas Holmberg, Jenni Laiti and Outi Pieski, ÁHKUIN presents a melancholy yet playful Sámi story with lessons for a new era defined by giving and receiving."
Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/ahkuin#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateCrisis #Nature #ProtectNature #LandBasedKnowledge #Sápmi #joik #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #OceansAreLife #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #ProtectTheSacred #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #duodji #colonization #Maaritáhkku #Matriarkaatti #Matriarchy #CulturalSurvival -
[Short film]: ARMEA
Letila Mitchell (#Rotuman) with Rotuman Women’s Weaving Collective & Iane Tavo (Rotuman)
“If you listen to nature, it will lead the way…” Elder Gagaj Taimanav
"Steeped in symbolism and no larger than a child’s hand, the diminutive bird known as the Armea is found in only one place on Earth: the Pacific island of Rotuma.
"After scores of performances around the world and years away from Rotuma, ARMEA opens as the dedicated dancers and musicians of Rako Pasefika make their long awaited return home to the island. Arriving by air yet received just as their seafaring predecessors were, the Rako team engages with creative elders in the hopes of revitalizing ancient stories that are in danger of being forgotten. As Rako prepares to perform a new production inspired by the totemic Armea, their relationships with elders, knowledge keepers, healers, artisans and cultural custodians reveal deep and reciprocal connections to this ancient land and to the immense ocean from which it rises. Both an offering to those who have guided the way — such as the hån lep he rua sacred women — and a promise to sustain sacred artforms for generations to come, ARMEA is an ode to all that is small yet sacred."
Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/armea
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #ProtectNature #WomenCenteredFilms #AsianPacificIslanders #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #OceansAreLife #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #ProtectTheSacred #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #RakoPasefika #Rako #PacificOcean #WomensWeavingCollective -
[Short film]: ARMEA
Letila Mitchell (#Rotuman) with Rotuman Women’s Weaving Collective & Iane Tavo (Rotuman)
“If you listen to nature, it will lead the way…” Elder Gagaj Taimanav
"Steeped in symbolism and no larger than a child’s hand, the diminutive bird known as the Armea is found in only one place on Earth: the Pacific island of Rotuma.
"After scores of performances around the world and years away from Rotuma, ARMEA opens as the dedicated dancers and musicians of Rako Pasefika make their long awaited return home to the island. Arriving by air yet received just as their seafaring predecessors were, the Rako team engages with creative elders in the hopes of revitalizing ancient stories that are in danger of being forgotten. As Rako prepares to perform a new production inspired by the totemic Armea, their relationships with elders, knowledge keepers, healers, artisans and cultural custodians reveal deep and reciprocal connections to this ancient land and to the immense ocean from which it rises. Both an offering to those who have guided the way — such as the hån lep he rua sacred women — and a promise to sustain sacred artforms for generations to come, ARMEA is an ode to all that is small yet sacred."
Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/armea
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #ProtectNature #WomenCenteredFilms #AsianPacificIslanders #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #OceansAreLife #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #ProtectTheSacred #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #RakoPasefika #Rako #PacificOcean #WomensWeavingCollective -
[Short film] #Enchukunoto (The Return)
Laissa Malih with John Ole Tingoi (#Maasai)
"As the first female Maasai filmmaker, Laissa Malih initially set out to document the land-based practices of her forefathers and ways in which climate change is reshaping Maasai communities. In returning to the IL-Laikipiak Maasai village that her parents left when she was a child, Malih experiences an epiphany: her own life is a reflection of the myriad challenges between Maasai youth and elders, women and men, ancestral ways of passing down essential knowledge and modern methods of education.
"In ENCHUKUNOTO (The Return), Malih’s singular perspective also challenges ways in which the Maasai peoples have long been seen and documented by tourists and other outsiders. 'Many tourists come to our Maa lands to film the lions, the gazelles,' she observes. 'The camera takes and takes. I wonder what my camera can give my people in return?'
"Interweaving verite with Malih’s insights, Malih offers a heretofore unseen perspective as an insider and an outsider, a woman among men, a filmmaker carrying on sacred Maasai traditions of storytelling in an era defined by uncertainty."
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/enchukunoto
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #ProtectNature #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousAfricans #MassaiPeople #WomenDirectedFilms #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #FilmVerite -
[Short film] #Enchukunoto (The Return)
Laissa Malih with John Ole Tingoi (#Maasai)
"As the first female Maasai filmmaker, Laissa Malih initially set out to document the land-based practices of her forefathers and ways in which climate change is reshaping Maasai communities. In returning to the IL-Laikipiak Maasai village that her parents left when she was a child, Malih experiences an epiphany: her own life is a reflection of the myriad challenges between Maasai youth and elders, women and men, ancestral ways of passing down essential knowledge and modern methods of education.
"In ENCHUKUNOTO (The Return), Malih’s singular perspective also challenges ways in which the Maasai peoples have long been seen and documented by tourists and other outsiders. 'Many tourists come to our Maa lands to film the lions, the gazelles,' she observes. 'The camera takes and takes. I wonder what my camera can give my people in return?'
"Interweaving verite with Malih’s insights, Malih offers a heretofore unseen perspective as an insider and an outsider, a woman among men, a filmmaker carrying on sacred Maasai traditions of storytelling in an era defined by uncertainty."
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/enchukunoto
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #ProtectNature #CulturalPreservation #IndigenousAfricans #MassaiPeople #WomenDirectedFilms #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity #FilmVerite -
[Short film] #Tahnaanooku'
Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)
"A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam.
"Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be 'the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.'
"Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come."
Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku
#Arikara #StandingRockSioux #Mandan #Hidatsa #Arikara #MotherEarth #MissouriRiver #GarrisonDam #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity -
[Short film] #Tahnaanooku'
Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)
"A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam.
"Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be 'the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.'
"Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come."
Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku
#Arikara #StandingRockSioux #Mandan #Hidatsa #Arikara #MotherEarth #MissouriRiver #GarrisonDam #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity -
[Short film] #Tahnaanooku'
Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)
"A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam.
"Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be 'the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.'
"Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come."
Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku
#Arikara #StandingRockSioux #Mandan #Hidatsa #Arikara #MotherEarth #MissouriRiver #GarrisonDam #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity -
[Short film] #Tahnaanooku'
Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)
"A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam.
"Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be 'the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.'
"Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come."
Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku
#Arikara #StandingRockSioux #Mandan #Hidatsa #Arikara #MotherEarth #MissouriRiver #GarrisonDam #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity -
[Short film] #Tahnaanooku'
Justin Deegan (Arikara, Oglala, and Hunkpapa) with Jennifer Martel (Cheyenne)
"A grandmother. A source of existence. A portal to other worlds. For thousands of years, the Indigenous Peoples of what is now known as North and South Dakota co-existed reciprocally with the Missouri River, its waters offering life while also inspiring legends and languages. In Tahnaanooku’, filmmaker Justin Deegan takes an experimental approach to the severing of this relationship between his community — the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara — and the river, the result of over 80 years of US government efforts to control the Missouri, including via the Garrison Dam.
"Seen through the eyes of Deegan’s mother, Darline, Tahnaanooku’ intertwines past, present, and future, land and language, dreams and reality. The staunching of the Missouri contrasts with a fluid streak of horses, the diminished river currents interweave with the light of the aurora borealis. In dreams, Darline — a designer, activist, mother, and grandmother — receives messages from the original Mother, Earth itself. Meanwhile, the stark visual backdrop of the Garrison Dam offers an immovable reminder of the ruinous history of the Pick-Sloan Plan, deemed by legendary historian Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) to be 'the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.'
"Glimpsed in ceremony, Darline (one of the last speakers of the critically endangered ancient Arikara language) offers care to a fellow grandmother and shares hope for the generations to come."
Watch: https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tahnaanooku
#Arikara #StandingRockSioux #Mandan #Hidatsa #Arikara #MotherEarth #MissouriRiver #GarrisonDam #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity -
[Short film] #Tayal #Forest Club
"Ancestors! We’ve gotten stuck here. Can you help us find the way home?” pleads Yukan, an Atayal teenager lost in the forests of his forefathers.
"Bullied at school and weighed down at home by his dad’s drinking, Yukan is eager to escape it all. When his best friend, Watan, invites him on a hike, a physically and emotionally bruised Yukan grabs his machete and the two boys head into the woods. But this isn’t just any hike, or just any woods — as Yukan and Watan’s youthful overconfidence runs them up against the realities of nightfall in the dense and mountainous Atayal homelands, other forces begin to reveal themselves. Before they can find a way home, these two young Tayal men must first humble themselves enough to learn the lessons that the land itself has to offer.
"In TAYAL FOREST CLUB, Taiwan’s first Indigenous female film director, Laha Mebow, shares a coming-of-age tale that interweaves Tayal characters, settings, and symbols with the complexities arising from her community’s interactions with contemporary society."
Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tayal-forest-club#SolarPunkSunday #SaveTheForest #ForestProtectors #Nature #ProtectNature #Atayal #IndigenousTaiwanese #Taiwan #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #WomenDirectedFilms
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity -
[Short film] #Tayal #Forest Club
"Ancestors! We’ve gotten stuck here. Can you help us find the way home?” pleads Yukan, an Atayal teenager lost in the forests of his forefathers.
"Bullied at school and weighed down at home by his dad’s drinking, Yukan is eager to escape it all. When his best friend, Watan, invites him on a hike, a physically and emotionally bruised Yukan grabs his machete and the two boys head into the woods. But this isn’t just any hike, or just any woods — as Yukan and Watan’s youthful overconfidence runs them up against the realities of nightfall in the dense and mountainous Atayal homelands, other forces begin to reveal themselves. Before they can find a way home, these two young Tayal men must first humble themselves enough to learn the lessons that the land itself has to offer.
"In TAYAL FOREST CLUB, Taiwan’s first Indigenous female film director, Laha Mebow, shares a coming-of-age tale that interweaves Tayal characters, settings, and symbols with the complexities arising from her community’s interactions with contemporary society."
Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tayal-forest-club#SolarPunkSunday #SaveTheForest #ForestProtectors #Nature #ProtectNature #Atayal #IndigenousTaiwanese #Taiwan #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #WomenDirectedFilms
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity -
[Short film] #Tayal #Forest Club
"Ancestors! We’ve gotten stuck here. Can you help us find the way home?” pleads Yukan, an Atayal teenager lost in the forests of his forefathers.
"Bullied at school and weighed down at home by his dad’s drinking, Yukan is eager to escape it all. When his best friend, Watan, invites him on a hike, a physically and emotionally bruised Yukan grabs his machete and the two boys head into the woods. But this isn’t just any hike, or just any woods — as Yukan and Watan’s youthful overconfidence runs them up against the realities of nightfall in the dense and mountainous Atayal homelands, other forces begin to reveal themselves. Before they can find a way home, these two young Tayal men must first humble themselves enough to learn the lessons that the land itself has to offer.
"In TAYAL FOREST CLUB, Taiwan’s first Indigenous female film director, Laha Mebow, shares a coming-of-age tale that interweaves Tayal characters, settings, and symbols with the complexities arising from her community’s interactions with contemporary society."
Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tayal-forest-club#SolarPunkSunday #SaveTheForest #ForestProtectors #Nature #ProtectNature #Atayal #IndigenousTaiwanese #Taiwan #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #WomenDirectedFilms
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity
