Tagged with 'indigenous'

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The Jungle Prescription is the tale of two doctors treating their addicted patients with a mysterious Amazonian medicine rumored to reveal one’s deepest self.

"While many people in Indian Country can sympathize with the protestors’ claims, there is also some growing criticism for the idea behind its name, which overlooks the first occupants of the Wall Street area. This has given rise to the response from Native bloggers and activists to not Occupy Wall Street but Decolonize Wall Street."

- from one of the posts on http://disoccupy.wordpress.com

I've just released online a booklet containing some of my writings on Aboriginal issues. It's got stuff about language, culture, education, activism, sovereignty and more ... Available (at no cost) in two forms: PDF e-book or formatted for printing out as a 'zine' (ie doublesided and then fold/staple (or elastic)).

You can download either version at:

The following is taken from a Facebook discussion about patriarchy and women’s oppression in class society – alas, the original conversation has gone missing, but I DO have my response, which at least makes some sense out of context:

Leonardo Lisondro Guarcia Guarcax Gonzales, the leader and teacher of the mayan theatre group "Sotzil" http://www.sotzil.org/ based in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, has been murdered. Gonzales was abducted last Wednesday, the 25th of August, his body was found later on friday.

A story about Pré Colombian Culture & Indigenous people called The Kogi also Kogius , the Arhuaco and the Assario.

What is occurring in the Gulf of Mexico is not an isolated incident. It is only one component part to an entire ecology of unconsciousness. This is the same unconsciousness that allows the removal of mountaintops that have evolved over millions of years, the damming of rivers that have formed throughout great shifts of world ages, and the systematic deforestation of the entire planet.

In the Jonson street park in Byron Bay talking with the Mob... Myban (the eagle or farsighted one) and Bundjalung custodian Louis (the Walker Between the Worlds), alongside Rak Razam and Jungian analyst Jeremiah Abrams...

Please join me as I take a trek out to the Pine Ridge reservation to earn my Permaculture Design Certificate and help create self-sufficiency for members of the most impoverished community in America.

The Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota is in inhumanely deplorable condition.
A brief summary of the challenges faced are:

Greetings dear Friends and Family,

Nearing the end of an adventurous, enlivening, and insightful journey here in Peru with my darling Andrea.

It´s been a time of making merry with the Peoples, breathing with the essences of so many lands, and receiving a bounty of foods and medicines to guide us in our transformation as Creatures of a Lush and Lively Earth * * *