Monthly Archives: November 2011

Patricia Pearson Huffington Post If you want to understand what’s going on in Attawapiskat, you need to hop on a plane. There’s pretty much no other way to grasp why one of Canada’s First Nation fly-in communities would be receiving … Continue reading →

The long term survival of your people depends on your clans ability to provide the following (incomplete list): Food Shelter Water Security Defense Energy War, famine, global warming, global financial meltdowns, peak oil, catastrophic environmental pollution, civil unrest, revolution…. pick … Continue reading →

Man…. I can’t wait for this system to self implode so we can start building something worthwhile. Wait. Why not start building right now?

Survival Podcast on “Paleoculture.” Looks interesting! —————————————– http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/paleoculture-the-orginal-permaculture The American Bison was the Definition of "Sustainable Protein" So this week I have been thinking about the paleo lifestyle and how it would fit into a permaculture based system. Turn out … Continue reading →

Turkey Parable In the morning, a nice man comes for a visit.   He puts food in your bowl.   The food is fresh and tasty.   The food is always in plentiful supply. At night there's a warm place … Continue reading →

It may be a bit schizophrenic of me and my family to celebrate Thanksgiving. But we do it every year. It isn’t really the story of the pilgrims that we celebrate. Cultures around the world have one form of harvest … Continue reading →

WE’LL LET YOUR PEOPLE GO Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com/ MNN Nov. 20, 2011.  Foreign occupiers [of Great Turtle Island]!  Looking for solutions?  Everything based on a lie is a lie. Like how foreign corporate entities called US and Canada and their … Continue reading →

Dennis Banks covers some issues near and dear to the hearts of we Indian people. What is the role of Indian people in setting land use policy? This is an issue of local control versus Federal control. Would we abuse … Continue reading →

From Survival Nísio Gomes's last words were to his son.© Survival The last words of Nísio Gomes, the Guarani leader assassinated yesterday in southern Brazil, were to his son Valmir: ‘Don’t leave this place. Take care of this land with … Continue reading →

American Indians serve in the military at higher rates than others. Many tribes (including mine) plan on outlasting the US Government. We’ve seen the Spanish, the British, the French, and the Russian empires come and go from our lands. There’s … Continue reading →