#nativewisdom — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nativewisdom, aggregated by home.social.
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#FlashbackFriday
Autumn 2021.
Warming up & chatting with #HereditaryChief Sonny Wallas (David Hanuse), Chief Ye-kue-klas of [Gwat’sinuxw (Quatsino)] nation.
He was sharing with me about feeling bullied/outnumbered by band council folks who are dishonouring their ancestors/betraying Creator & his work with culture & language preservation.Wallas’s great-grandfather was James Wallas—coauthor of #Kwakiutl Legends. He was the former hereditary Chief of the Quatsino #FirstNation of the Northern #VancouverIsland #Kwakiutl.
Learn more:
https://himwitsa.com/products/kwakiutl-legendshttps://hakaimagazine.com/news/northwestern-vancouver-island-likely-escaped-the-ice-age/
Chief Sonny's #Indigenous #linguistic# work:
https://as.amphilsoc.org/repositories/2/resources/3432https://www.quatsino.org/history
#IndigenousElders #KnowledgeKeepers #LanguageKeepers #CutureKeepers #NativeWisdom #Decolonization #VancouverIsland #PortHardy #TraditionalChief #NativeChief #BCFirstNations #UNDRIP #LandBack #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #NativeLanguages #Frontlines #Blockade
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You are warmly invited into a #cinematic journey with Mauri: The Vital Essence in All Beings.
#Mauri is a powerful #documentary #film that invites us into the living world of #Māori #healing. Guided by #elders and lineage holders, the film weaves land, language, and ceremony into a story of #intergenerational care and #ancestral remembering. Filmed in Aotearoa, Mauri honors the sacred ways that continue even in the wake of #colonization and offers a profound glimpse into the resilience of #cultural memory and connection.
Join us for Mauri #GlobalFilmPremiere + 5-Day LIVE #OnlineEvent with #MāoriElders - October 14–18 →
https://theeternalsong.org/mauri/Mauri: The Vital Essence in All Beings is the latest offering in our Wisdom of the Ancestors 12-film series, a living body of work shaped by #Indigenous knowledge, deep listening, and ancestral continuity.
The film invites us into stories that reach, beyond explanation, into embodied teachings, and generational healing work. As part of this gathering, you’ll be welcomed into daily live sessions and receive a rare workshop with Atarangi Muru, a world-renowned Māori healer whose practice has supported communities across the globe.
These gatherings bring you into direct connection with the voices and presences featured in Mauri:
Atarangi Muru, a respected healer whose life’s work carries #RongoāMāori into communities across #Aotearoa and the world
Mark Kopua, tā moko master and guardian of ancient story traditions
Donna Kerridge, trauma therapist and educator working with nervous system intelligence and land-based healing
Tina Ngata, international advocate for Indigenous, environmental, and human rights
Tāngaroa Ngaropo-Tāwio, Māori scholar, spiritual practitioner, and cultural leader dedicated to reviving ancestral knowledge
Tohe Ashby, Rongoā Māori Healer recognized for developing treatment for kauri tree dieback disease using traditional knowledge and whalebone
Erin Matariki Carr, lawyer and currently a project lead at RIVER, where she focuses on the constitutional transformation movement in Aotearoa
Stan Conrad, one of the foremost captains of Māori ocean voyaging, a leader in the wisdom and practices of Māori navigation and vessels
Each session opens a portal into ancestral intelligence — revealing relational systems of care, healing, and spiritual grounding that respond to our entangled modern crises.
#Decolonization #NativeWisdom #AncestralKnowledge #BIPOC #CulturalConnecting #CulturalSharing #Educational #DecolonizeYourMind #DecolonialEducation #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #NativeHealing #IndigenousTeachings
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The #ClamGardens #RestorationProject has reclaimed #W̱SÁNEĆ knowledge, improved #ecosystems and provided the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation with additional funding.
From 2014 to 2019, #ParksCanada, the #W̱SÁNEĆNation and the #Hulquminum #FirstNations participated in the Clam Garden Restoration project.
Clam gardens are #AncientSites along shorelines in W̱SÁNEĆ territory that #Indigenous people tended for thousands of years to enhance the production of #clams and related sea creatures. Clams were an important source of protein for W̱SÁNEĆ people. The Clam Restoration project spent 5 years working to restore clam gardens in W̱SÁNEĆ territory. In addition to improving the #ecology of two clam gardens, the project also aimed to reclaim W̱SÁNEĆ knowledge, practices and culture related to clam gardens.
Learn more & sign up to help out:
https://wsanec.com/the-clam-garden-restoration-project/#LandBack #NativeKnowledge #Nature #Shellfish #Seafood #Saanich #IndigenousKnowledge #NativeWisdom #BritishColumbia #Canada #Cascadia #conservation #sustainability #VancouverIsland #decolonization #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #photography #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #Naturalist #environmental #IndigenousLedProject #reclamation #decolonialism #FoodSecurity #FoodSource #Restoration #YYJ #VictoriaBC