A Garden Fair
by Helen A. Fussell
I will sing you a song
Of a garden fair,
Wherein were sown seeds
That brought blossoms rare.
Love, joy and kindness,
And hearty good cheer,
Were the seeds that were sown
And flowered here.
The garden fair
Was a little child’s mind,
And the seeds were these thoughts,
Just the very best kind.

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.
We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?"
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Measure life by the simple things of truth and beauty. We are all stars tending other stars. We are all, right now, each of us, the Mothers of creation.
XO
"Night and Her Train of Stars"
Mixed Media
2016

#536 - U.S. Capitalism: A Story of Genocide and Slavery

5/3/21 by John Kane

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The origin of U.S. capitalism and the influence of wealth on politics begins with genocide and slavery.

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Protect Indigenous Women

5/5/21 by Matika Wilbur, Desi Rodriguez Lonebear & Adrienne Keene

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Since the onset of colonization Indigenous women have experienced violence with reckless abandon, today it is a public health emergency. Traditionally, many of our Native societies are matrilineal but settler colonialism has disrupted our traditional value systems. These shifts have tragically contributed to the epidemic of violence we see committed against our women and Two Spirit relations. The issue is systemic and this episode discusses how we must hold systems and people accountable. Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) is a playwright and lawyer with Pipestem Law, a firm dedicated to legal advocacy for the safety of Native women and tribal sovereignty. She represents families of victims and has testified before Congress for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Her perspective on the legal issues regarding MMIW expounds how tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction is so important in combatting the crisis. She also explains how political participation and allyship is necessary to fight subversive systems which propagate violence. Abigail Echohawk (Pawnee) is Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and a leader in the movement to bring visibility to MMIW through political advocacy work, data, and research. Her organization conducted a seminal report on the crisis to better understand the prevalence of the crisis which has harmed our relations for 500 years. This episode is raw, real, and heart wrenching. The crisis must be addressed and we need allies to join us in making it visible so we can all take action. We need to hold non-Natives upholding these systems accountable. Further, we need Natives to step into roles of political power to demand change. Every statistic represents a Native woman. We must honor and protect our sisters. No more stolen sisters. Links and Resources

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#537 - MMIW Day 2021

5/5/21 by John Kane

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May 5th has been designated as MMIW Day since 2017 but 2021 is ushering in "MMIW National Week of Action!"

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#538 - Native Spaces

5/7/21 by John Kane

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After participating in a restorative justice healing circle for the mascot battle in the small town of Cambridge, NY, John reflects on the issue of "safe spaces." Specifically, how the discussion among the members of the Cambridge, NY community highlighted the lack of contemporary indigenous spaces and how that impacts Native people as we confront issues in spaces that are no longer ours.

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The Ten Reasons Why We Train Students to Restore Indigenous Ecosystems for Production of Forests, Foods, Fruits and Flowers:-

1. Resource de Ventapletion and escalating food poverty and low income due to institutionalized air, land, forest and water degradation activities.
2. Deterioration of health of the young, youth and middle age resulting in high mortality due to emergence of early degenerative geriatric conditions as result of continuous intake of food produced and preserved through poisonous processes.
3. Climate change due to degenerative conventional monocultural agricultural and myopic industrial activities resulting in depleting water resources, high soil acidity, low safe and palatable food production.
4. Degradation, destruction and degeneration of mother earth due to use of chemical fertilizers and broad spectrum pesticides/fungicides/molluscicides/insecticides/herbicides.
5. High expectations from illusive external development initiatives.
6. Social and spiritual health break-down due to monetary/materially inclined values bereft of natural ethics and morals.
7. Inter-community wars and break-down due to cut throat competition on fallacy of scarce resources and opportunities.
8. Families break down due institutionalized geographic separation in search of illusive brighter livelihoods.
9. Intentional conditional wastage of human energy and income in permanent manmade schemes of mental and physical servitude.
10. Low Immunity due to eating of chemical grown, processed and conserved food leading to high susceptibility to emerging diseases like Covi-19 and other numerous geriatric Conditions.

Our solutions

With due respect to addressing the above 10 silent killers in the context of their existence, The Training subsequently provides Ten practical natural and permanent solutions through establishment of intensive syntropic agroforestry and regenerative designs that restores indigenous ecosystems [ISAIE] for trees, fruits, flowers and food crops as indicated here below:-

1. ISAIE creates natural systems that regulates air, sunlight, soil and water and creates food, income and occupation
2. ISAIE maintains continuous supplies of natural, organic, fresh, non-poisonous and non-attenuated food hence assuring the health of current and future generations. It reduces risk of acquiring foodborne diseases, geriatric cancers and diabetes at early age and increases participation in economic building activities
3. ISAIE provides a natural agro-biological polyculture system that captures, conserves, sinks and stores water and nutrients for continuous soil regeneration, food and cash production and impacts positively on its immediate environments hence reducing drivers of climate change.
4. ISAIE applies natural sectorial and zoning, principles, ethics, compartmentalized planning, re-patterning techniques to re-design idle, dry and degraded land. It turns it to regenerative land by implanting a seven layered beneficial guild that ensures permanent supply of natural and diversified food for human, livestock, poultry and commercial insects. It ensures restoration, regeneration and conservation for mother earth through application of techniques that prevents use of poisonous fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides
5. ISAIE creates an environment that ensures that one can live off conventional water, power, road, newspaper and TV grids as much as per his/her wishes.
6. Interaction with ISAIE enhances social responsibility and generates spiritual tranquility through participation and increasing inclination and relationship to earth, plants, animals and humans.
7. ISAIE create a community of practitioners who shares and supplements each other with eco-education, seeds, labor and food rather than engage in the conventional unhealthy competition
8. ISAIE provides opportunities for family participation in preparation, maintenance and harvesting. It provides enough food and resources to sustain immediate and extended family and restores and maintains family unity and cohesion.
9. ISAIE provides a permanent opportunity for

and future generations to consolidate their energy and income through establishment of a permanent regenerative indigenous self and life sustaining ecosystem for today and tomorrow with relatively little energy inputs. The ecosystems are designed in line human lifespan energy cycles. As your energy reduces due to old age production increases.
10. ISAIE promotes indigenous food eating, production, processing and conservation without using poisonous chemicals hence high nutritive value and improved immunity against modern and emerging diseases