Category: environmental sustainability
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writing
I haven’t been posting much on this site….too much going on in my community, so my social and environmental activism site has been getting a working out. 🙂 Here is a post I recently wrote, specifically for people who aren’t aware what is going on with the Salish Sea. I am also running a fundraiser…
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“What’s in a name?”
For the majority of my life, I have loved the relatives of the air, land and water. For the last ten years or so, I have worked on an academic path that helped me become a more conscientious, grounded advocate for all aspects of life, viewed by many through a narrow lens called environmentalism. The…
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Knowing when to hold faith….
and knowing when to scream your fucking lungs out. I don’t have the luxury of time to consider my words, so I’ll be practicing a bit of holding faith and screaming in this piece. The last four days have been a huge exercise for me…in having faith, letting go, calling in the goodness that exists…
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In pursuit of deep knowledge…
“It is a ‘given’ in Native traditions that deep knowledge is not easily gained and requires time and dedication to attain.” Greg Cajete, “Native Science” I am writing, writing, writing – hoping to create a body of good works in the world. And practice, reportedly, makes perfect. We are 40+ years past the epic environmental…
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“Turn and face the work”
It’s been a few weeks since I attended the 10th Annual Vine Deloria Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium. I initially started a blog post, but thought I might let the words and spirit of that time settle into my soul a little more before I started writing. There were so many gems from that experience of “Indigenuity”…
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7 Grandfathers Teaching
I have been spending time contemplating these teachings. Trying to determine where they exist in my life and where their foundations can be strengthened in my heart. There is this curious thing that happens when I leave meditation space. It is almost as if I step from one flowing stream into another. One stream is…
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Developing a land ethic
My most recent research project focuses on Tribal management of federally held lands. Not just lands held in trust, but lands which are managed by a federal agency but considered sacred by Tribal people. As a result of the recent appropriation of lands held sacred by the San Carlos Apache, my worst fears about the…
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