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...Kogi of Colombia....Natures Gate Keeper
....I put this on another site and decided it needed all the attention it could get......
please go to this site or any one of several and check out these fascinating people...Kogi....
Before it is too late....they have a knowledge that is so lacking in todays world.......... ....I put this on another site and decided it needed all the attention it could get...... ... more -
Peru moves to end Amazon protests
Will governments ever work for the interests of the people or just continue to work for the interests of business and industry?
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magic potion
Gina is taking Ayahuasca for the first time ever, cause she´s trying to feel less drepessed. This plant, has been used by the indigenous people of the Amazon forest to cure all sorts of ills, it also produces visions of the future and the past. Gina is taking Ayahuasca for the first time ever, cause she´s trying to feel less drepessed. This plant, has been used by the indigeno... more
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Menominee Tribal School students speak out about protecting Mother Earth
Menominee Tribal School students in Keshena, Wisconsin are learning valuable lessons about protecting the environment and learning their tribe’s heritage including keeping native language alive.
In April 2008 the tribal school’s 180 students participated in “Clean Up the Rez Day" by picking up garbage around the reservation. The many environment projects at the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin were part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day challenge. During a drum & feast to honor the students, teacher Beth Waukechon and culture teacher Dana Warrington explained the importance of taking care of Mother Earth. During a field trip to Green Bay's Pamprin Park, students climbing a replica of the Planet Earth were reminded of their reservation clean up. The 234,000-acre reservation has thick forests and 24-miles of the pristine Wolf River. Sturgeons spawned in reservation portions of the river until two dams were built blocking annual migration. Fifth grader La-Rie Corn hopes to form an Earth Club at the tribal school. After whitewashing gang graffiti at a popular skateboard park, students replaced negative symbols with American Indian art. Corn, 11, knows about 500 Menominee words thanks to teachers & elders that care about saving their native tongue. Fourth graders Tahekiah Bourdon, Raven Webster, Shae Perez, Naneque Latender, & Sherlinda Nahwahquaw learned the importance of respecting the Earth and how it fits their heritage.
Teacher Beth Waukechon said students will hopefully continue environment friendly practices as they grow older. MITW Restorative Justice Coordinator Claudette Hewson said the Menominee Teen Court Panel picked up litter & removed graffiti from roads signs in the Middle Village housing area. Tribal school students learned about the sturgeon, a vital part of Menominee heritage. Named the “People of the Wild Rice,” Menominee legend calls the sturgeon “the protector” of the grain that grows in water.
Corn said sturgeon hold a high place in Menominee culture because they're one of three gifts the creator gave to the Menominee people. Language arts instructor Joe Awonohopay said Earth Week 2008 classes were devoted to the sturgeon including the effects of pollution on life cycle, habitat, biology and more.
The College of Menominee Nation Implementing Sustainable Development Class collected electronic waste & pharmaceuticals. Students collected 23 pounds of medicines including 100 bottles of pills. The college students won 50 recycling bins in the Coca-Cola National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant. The class participated in the 10-week Recycle Mania project for the second year in a row. College Prof. Dr.William Van Lopik said the class is “actually doing something." Including curbside collections, Menominee reservation residents recycled over four tons of electronics.
Sponsors: Community Resource Center, Menominee Tribal Police, Tribal Clinic, Maehnowesekiyah Wellness Center, Probation & Parole, Recreation Department, Community Recycling Project; Menominee County Sheriff’s Department, Keshena U.S. Post Office.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted some challenge organizers with interfaith liaisons & encouraged churches/temples to participate in Earth Day events. Videos on 2008 Challenge projects made possible ban US Environmental Protection Agency grant, EPA Region 5 office in Chicago, EPA Great Lakes National Program Office.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes, churches/synagogues, other faith traditions working to heal, protect and defend the environment.
Websites:
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov
http://mtsbia.edu
http://www.menominee.edu
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org/keshenahtml
http://www.earthhealinginitiative.org
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/healthFamily/maehnowesekiy...
http://www.menominee-nsn.gov/healthFamily/youthDevel/yo...
Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain/Interfaith Resources/Special Ideas:
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Solar Power Windows to Replace/Augment Rooftop Solar Panels
Great Solar News from TouchArt's friend Bill Brown up in Taos, NM about MIT engineers brilliant technology for solar windows to harness energy.
Awesome.
MIT guys say they can be available in 3 years.
Let's use them for the One Earth bottle house design.
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Message from Bill Brown
www.nmglobalwarming.com
Hello, All -- Here is yet another reminder of the many rapid and spectacular advances in solar power technology -- in this case technology that could begin replacing and/or augmenting conventional rooftop solar panels within the next few years.
"Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that."
"Because the system is simple to manufacture, the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] team believes that it could be implemented within three years — even added onto existing solar-panel systems to increase their efficiency by 50 percent for minimal additional cost. That, in turn, would substantially reduce the cost of solar electricity."
So, I offer this fair warning to all in the business to continue to be ready for -- and participate in -- a future of unlimited possibilities for clean energy solutions to our current dirty energy problems.
-- Bill Brown
Go to link for more
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=5...
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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
where everyday, always has, and always will be Earth Day.
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100 attend summit on Rosebud suicides
http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3
Food & Health - Mental Health Issues
Mission, South Dakota (AP) 7-08
About 100 people attended a two-day summit in Mission on the high number of suicides on the Rosebud Reservation.
At least six people from the reservation have taken their lives this year and more than 200 have talked about it, made plans to do it or tried.
The local suicide task force released a 20-item plan that mainly focuses on tribal people helping themselves.
It calls for training young people to spot the warning signs among their peers, using elders to teach cultural and traditional values and more outreach to parents to educate them on suicide prevention.
The tribal chairman says a federal $200,000 grant approved by the U.S. Senate recently will be used to put people on the reservation to work with young people and families.
Click on Link for more Indian Country News.
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Photo - "Mission, South Dakota" 2006 by Charleen Touchette http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3 Food & Health - Mental Health Issues ... more -
White Earth Nation Address by Tribal Chair Erma Vizenor
White Earth Nation Tribal Chair Erma Vizenor gives the State of the White Earth Nation address.
Watch the video at this link for scenes from White Earth Nation in Northern Minnesota including Tribal Drummers and Singers, community gathering, Tribal leaders procession and Tribal Chair Erma Vizenor's address on the State of the White Earth Nation.
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from White Earth Nation website - www.whiteearth.com
History of the White Earth Nation -
"All Indian tribes have names for themselves. The largest Indian group in Minnesota calls itself Anishinaabe, which means "the original people." Europeans named them Ojibwe. No one is exactly sure how this name developed. Perhaps it came from the Anishinaabe word "ojib," which describes the puckered moccasins worn by the people. Some Europeans had trouble saying Ojibwe, pronouncing it instead as Chippewa. But both these names refer to the same people. In Canada, the Anishinaabe call themselves Ojibwe. In the United States, many tribal members prefer the name Chippewa. So that is the name we will use in this history of White Earth Reservation...."
Go to www.whiteearth.com for more on the history of the White Earth Nation.
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From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com White Earth Nation Tribal Chair Erma Vizenor gives the State of the White Earth Nation address. ... more -
White Earth Tribal Council Mission and Vision
The Mission of the White Earth Tribal Council is:
To preserve, promote and enhance our quality of life.
The Vision of the White Earth Tribal Council is:
The White Earth Tribal Council will be a proactive organization that makes sound decisions promoting mino-bimahdiziwin (the good life).
The White Earth Reservation will be a safe place where all people have access to quality employment, housing, education, health and human services. While we protect our inherent right to self-governance and identity, we are a community of respect where cultural, historical, and environmental assets are treasured and conserved for future generations.
Go to www.whiteearth.com for more on the White Earth Tribal Council.
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where we love the people, lakes and forests of White Earth,
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Pope will make Hawaii's Damien a saint
Hawai'i Catholics rejoiced yesterday at news that the pope had cleared the way for Father Damien's sainthood and began planning for the big event.
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"There's excitement, but there's, 'Oh, what do we have to do next?'" said the Rev. Ed Popish, who served for years as a pastor in Kalaupapa, Moloka'i, where Damien volunteered to work with patients afflicted with Hansen's disease, then called leprosy. Damien contracted the disease himself and died in 1889 at age 49.
The Vatican reported yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree accepting that the miraculous cure of Audrey Toguchi of 'Aiea from terminal cancer was attributable to her prayers to Damien for his intervention with God.
The pope has yet to set a date for the canonization ceremony, which will take place in Rome. Hawai'i Catholics rejoiced yesterday at news that the pope had cleared the way for Father Damien's sainthood and began plann... more -
MIT-led team finds language without numbers
An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team.
The team, led by MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences Edward Gibson, found that members of the Piraha tribe in remote northwestern Brazil use language to express relative quantities such as "some" and "more," but not precise numbers.
It is often assumed that counting is an innate part of human cognition, said Gibson, "but here is a group that does not count. They could learn, but it's not useful in their culture, so they've never picked it up."
The study, which appeared in the June 10 online edition of the journal Cognition, offers evidence that number words are a concept invented by human cultures as they are needed, and not an inherent part of language, Gibson said.
The work builds on a study published in 2004, which found that the Piraha had words to express the quantities "one," "two," and "many." The MIT researchers observed the same phenomenon when they asked Piraha speakers to describe sets of objects as they were added, from one to 10. An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, accor... more -
Winona LaDuke Talks about Conservation and How to Model a Sustainable Society.
Winona LaDuke, director of the Honor the Earth Fund, talks about conservation efforts on her reservation, and the lessons modern society can take from indigenous peoples such as the American Indians on how to model a sustainable society. (2007)
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Turtle Island Project Director: Some rich think Indigenous Peoples are "expen...
(Marquette, Michigan) - Many of the rich around the world view Indigenous Peoples, women and children as “expendable commodities,” said Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard during Northern Michigan University 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit.
Hubbard added he fears for the future of mankind and the planet because “we have lost any sense of the sacred.”
The summit was held on Earth Day 2008 on the NMU campus in Marquette, Michigan near the shores of Lake Superior.
The two-day summit - the first of its kind at NMU - was April 22-23.
Read more by clicking on link. (Marquette, Michigan) - Many of the rich around the world view Indigenous Peoples, women and children as “expendable commodities,” sai... more -
Turtle Island Project Director Some rich view Indigenous Peoples as "expendab...
TIP Dir. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard:
I think we have here two different forms of religion. Ands its this religion of my ancestors that I participate in that I think really has been the problem. I think we have to come to understand that religious consciousness evolves just like anything else does. It's not just the material world that evolves but also our cultural world evolves and the realm of the concept evolves. We are going now, as a people - there was a time from prehistorical religions to historic religions. the religions of the book Judaism, Christianity, Islam to this historic period. Now I think that is transending to this transrational understanding of spirituality. And as part of this transrational understanding of spirituality is an appropriation of this knowledge and spirituality of Earth-based cultures. I think we have to be open now to what John Trudell called ‘spirit making and escape.’ I love this idea. My spirit needs to make an escape from my religious consciousness. The racial and cultural genocide that still goes on today inside this country . Judaism is an inherently ethical religion except you have to be a Canaanite. You may get your ass kicked or your head cut off but basically it's OK. But sky Gods and cultures that worship sky Gods are traditionally barbaric - Read the Old Testament - Wow! Talk about patriarchy. But we are in a war. It is not a war of my choosing.But we are in a war I truly believe that - a war fore our hearts and our minds. We have to continually fight.It's multi-generational. We fight against great principalities and powers. It's amazing. If you stick your head up out of the foxhole just a little bit and you start speaking on behalf of the poor. Those bullets are flying. I said something about a corporation. I said we created these corporations and political structures that aren't moral entities because you have to say things like: ‘I'm sorry. I made a mistake.' You have to admit your humanness. When's the last time your heard a politician ever admit a mistake unless they were forced to? ‘I did not have sex with that woman - I did not inhale - yes I smoked but I did not inhale' And I said corporations are liked this too - they are not moral entities because they cannot do these things like apologize. Well, good Lord that's attacking a sacred cow - there's a guy in my congregation who just went ballistic - who quit the church because he had spent his entire life benefiting from, working for, a non-moral entity. I did not say all corporations were liked this - I just said some corporations are like this. Well that's all you have to say. Rev. Hubbard said Americans and all people who call Earth home need to protect the environment. He said we have lost the sense of the sacred - a lesson that can be learned from Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples. I understand this because I feel desperate. What John Trudell was talking about is the same way. We've lost our way. We do not have any spiritual sense because we have lost any sense of the sacred. A great historian of the religions Mircea Eliade who was at the University of Chicago where I for many years - I did his funeral. Mircea Eliade had this notion that in order to have a hierophany, an experience of the sacred, you have to have sacred space. If this Earth is not sacred to you, which it isn't to Mickey Mouse, then you can't have an experience of the sacred. I deal with people every day in my congregation who have lost or are losing any sense of the sacred. And it's not only - like you were saying this relationship between Earth and women - and the earth and man. If you do not have power in a capitalistic society, you become part of and you are thought of in terms of the Earth. Women who have less economic power, children who don't have any power at all unless somebody gives it to them, Indigenous communities, you are all thought of as expendable commodities. TIP Dir. Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: ... more -
The Amazons Magic Potion
It´s said to cure everything from depression to cancer. But it also gives you visions of your present, your future and your past lives. Some people see the moment they were born. It´s said to cure everything from depression to cancer. But it also gives you visions of your present, your future and your past lives... more
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Calls to leave 'new' Amazon tribe alone
"An Australian-based linguist says the less we know about one of South America's uncontacted indigenous tribes, the better it is for them. A photographer aboard a helicopter has snapped a picture of the tribe, who shun contact with the outside world, in a remote part of the Amazon on the border between Brazil and Peru.
LaTrobe University professor Alexandra Aikhenvald says contact with white people has not brought much good to Indigenous tribes in history so far.
"My reaction is excitement because it is always extremely interesting to see new peoples being discovered," she has told ABC's The World Today. "But I think they would be extremely scared [after seeing the helicopter]. They may just leave because they may have this idea that is some sort of gigantic bird that wants to engulf them all or that it is some sort of invaders or anything like that. If anyone might want to establish any contact with them, I don't think they should fly helicopters. They should probably just approach them very carefully and proceed with extreme caution and care."
Prof Aikhenvald strongly doubts the tribe has never had contact with white people, but says it is not impossible.
"Many of them had contact with white people at different times in the past [but] basically in the 19th Century and then during the rubber boom, many of them just fled," she said.
"Maybe they are descendants of those groups that fled from white supremacy maybe 100 or more years ago. So they may not have any recollections of contact with white people. They may not be really forthcoming to tell us, but in actual fact they're just hiding or they have been in hiding for many, many years."
I JUST THINK IT'S COOL THAT THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF THINGS WE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IN THE WORLD. "An Australian-based linguist says the less we know about one of South America's uncontacted indigenous tribes, the better i... more -
Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil
One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.
The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land.
The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows.
More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says.
Stephen Corry, the director of the group - which supports tribal people around the world - said such tribes would "soon be made extinct" if their land was not protected. One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil... more -
The World's Hardest Working Shaman
Western Shoshone leader, Corbin Harney talks about his prophetic conversation with the water
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"We Are All Just Star Dust"-Scientific Proof of Indigenous Teaching ...
Indigenous spiritual leaders have long taught that we are all related, not only to two-leggeds of all colors, human beings, but to all beings in the sacred universe including the four-leggeds, bird people, burrowing and swimming animals, insects, plant and fungi people, and the star people.
We are all related. Ho! Mitakuye Oayasin. All my relations say the Lakotah when they pray to Wakan Takan, the Great Mystery.
Lakotah teachers say we are Star People, who are also our relations, and that we originate from the Pleiades.
Now Western scientists have "discovered" that human beings very substance is related to other beings in the animal, plant, the fungi families and even the stardust from exploding stars is part of the miracle of the origin or human life on earth.
Scientists have also discovered that we are light beings and that the life energy that connects us is light energy, as indigenous and ancient healers have taught for centuries as long ago as the Ayuvedic healers in India 5,000 years ago, the Buddhist and Zen teachers of Asia, the Kabbalists and other Middle Eastern mystics, as well as European tribal healers, and witches, and Christian mystics and back to our indigenous ancestors on each continent who moved energy through the body and cleared blockages to its flow through their hands like Reiki and Western practioners of energy medicine do today.
*Check out the link to - WNYC - The Leonard Lopate Show: We’re All Just Star Dust
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A robotic spacecraft has been in Saturn’s orbit for three years, studying the planet and its moons. On today’s Underreported, two members of the mission explain how their discoveries provide insight into our own origins on Earth."
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from Charleen Touchette at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com., who asks, if we are all related, can we start being kinder to one another and all the beings with whom we share the earth?
"If can forgive us, than why can't we forgive one another?" The Gladiators. Indigenous spiritual leaders have long taught that we are all related, not only to two-leggeds of all colors, human beings, but to all... more -
Indigenous Women's Network
The Indigenous Women's Network (IWN) was established in as a grass roots initiative at a gathering of over 200 Indigenous women at Yelm, Washington in 1985. The (Founding Mothers ) were and continue to be strong, committed Indigenous women activists who dedicate themselves to generating a global movement that achieves sustainable change for our communities. Under their visionary leadership, IWN has become known for inspiring, strategic, pro-active and affirming events that facilitates the inter-generational transfer of traditional knowledge to young, Indigenous women. Our training programs and publications reach and link Indigenous women around the world in a network of support that includes award winning artists, activists, authors, community leaders, educators, attorneys and traditional healers. The Indigenous Women's Network (IWN) was established in as a grass roots initiative at a gathering of over 200 Indigenous women a... more
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Mifugo ni mali
It's about the Maasai daily life told by the chief of the village without an external voice: "Mifugo ni mali" (Herd is richness).The story, the culture, the rituals, the catholich christmas mixed with the tradition, the daily life of the Maasai Paracuyo.
We have been passed around two weeks in the Maasai village and we left the characters to narrate their own documentary. Fortunatly the period has been rich of events and rituals like christmas and the birth of a child.
Director: Alessandra Argenti, Franco Consales It's about the Maasai daily life told by the chief of the village without an external voice: "Mifugo ni mali" (Herd is ... more
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