Toward a World that Works for Everyone
These settlers are going beyond orange shirts and land acknowledgments. Land Back is an Indigenous-led movement to reclaim traditional lands for Indigenous stewardship. By Sarah Treleaven, Broadview, November 8, 2022 Last June, Margaret Drescher prepared herself to finally pass along Windhorse Farm, a beloved retreat deep in the forest about an hour-and-a-half drive west of Halifax. […]
The Indigenous Ghost Dance is one of ‘renewal and restoration’ But one theologian says we shouldn’t confuse a vision central to the Ghost Dance faith with western end-times imagery By Damian Costello, Broadview, June 7, 2022 https://broadview.org/wanikiya-lives-on/ The story goes that during a solar eclipse on Jan. 1, 1889, Wovoka, the Paiute mystic from Smith Valley, […]
Time of the Feminine Podcast with Lauren Walsh and Shaina Conners The biggest problem in the world is our disconnection from Who We Truly Are, from our human family & the planet. Listen here to Vivien’s enlightened understandings. This Time of the Feminine episode features spiritual healer, philanthropist, and activist Vivien Vilela as she reveals […]
By Robin Wall Kimmerer, Yes, October 29, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/10/29/hearing-the-language-of-trees In “White Pine,” excerpted here, Robin Wall Kimmerer describes Indigenous reverence for trees, which are “respected as unique, sovereign beings equal to or exceeding the power of humans.” When I come beneath the pines, into that particular dappled light, time slows, and I fall under their […]
An underwater mystery on Canada’s coast By Diane Selkirk, BBC, October 14, 2021 https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211013-an-underwater-mystery-on-canadas-coast Tens of thousands of wooden stakes poking up from British Columbia’s shoreline have smashed a long-held stereotype of Canada’s First Nation people. At the lowest tides, Canada’s Comox estuary exposes a nearly forgotten story: the nubs of more than 150,000 wooden […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca February 2021, I left a stove element on, burnt a pot, and my door was broken by the firemen. I wrote a post called, A Burnt Pot. . . with Apologies. On Monday, August 9th, my broken door was replaced with a “fire-proof door.” It took 5 months to be installed with Covid, shipping […]
With thanks to Len. Each of you will be very important in the reconstruction of this new world. VISION QUEST Bridgenit, April 1, 2020 https://coe-llc.com/2020/04/01/message-from-white-eagle-hopi-indigenous-on-03-16-2020/ This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is […]
Reuters, June 15, 2021 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peruvians-re-weave-incan-string-bridge-frayed-pandemic-2021-06-15/ Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to literally string a crossing together spanning the Apurimac river far below. The Q’eswachaka bridge has been used for over 500 years to connect communities divided by the river. But […]
The Hopi people have inherited the wisdom of the Earth since ancient times. Hopi means “people of peace”. From the words of Hopi elder Vernon Masayesva, we will consider the current crisis of the Earth and the future of the Earth.
November 29th, 2011, Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, talked to me about “the construction of what we think of as New Earth, a new and different, conscious reality” and in the same breath, “the breaking down of illusions. . . such as lack, limitation, death, destruction, disease, greed, lust, control, power.” He went on to […]
Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic. (Especially interesting are their peacemaking circles.) The political and social cacophony of recent years has drowned out expressions of compassion and unity. If we listen carefully, we can hear the rational, gracious, intensely determined voices of the nation’s First […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Over the holidays I inadvertently fell into the sharing-gifting economy. . . My friend asked me to make 7 Christmas stockings for her roommates (she lives in a house with 6 others) and I had some of my grandmother’s teacups hiding in the cupboard that she offered to fill with soy wax to make […]
