Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Decolonial Resource List

Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Decolonial Resource List

AZE Journal
2019

Lectures / Interviews / Talks / Readings

Abby Abinanti, “16th National Indian Nations Conference”
Abby Abinanti, “2018 ICWA Symposium - Keynote”
Abby Abinanti and Josh Norris, “Intergenerational Trauma”
Akaxe Yotzin, “Metalanguages in Codex and Nahua Monoliths” (Part 2)
Alawiyya Jamal, “Our Indigenous Knowledge can Preserve The Environment”
Alex Wilson, “Coming In to Indigenous Sovereignty: Relationality and Resurgence”
Alex Wilson, “One House Many Nations: Hacking Colonial Systems of Dominance”
Alexis Sanchez, Holly James, Sheryl Wright, “Decolonizing Queer Spaces”
Amaranta Gómez Regalado, “La primera Muxe en conseguir un título universitario, habla de la discriminación”
Angela Davis, “What is Queer BDS? Pinkwashing, Intersections, Struggles, Politics”
Awqa Colque, “The Wretched of the Earth Chapter 2, 'Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness'“
Beata Tsosie-Peña, “Three Centuries of Pueblo Resistance”
Benny Wenda, “Indonesia's Hidden Colony”
Bertha Isabel Zúñiga Cáceres, “US Military Aid Has Fueled Repression & Violence in Honduras”
Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Gallstones and the Colonial Politics of the Future”
Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Indigenous Feminism as Abolitionist Praxis: An Essay in Ten Parts”
Billy-Ray Belcourt, “This Wound is a World”
Blessed Ngwenya, “Coloniality and South American-African solidarity”
Bruce Pascoe, “Aboriginal agriculture - maintaining a culture over millenia”
Caleen Sisk, Jeannette Armstrong, and Anne Keala Kelly, “Colonization and Indigenous People panel”
Caleen Sisk, “Ending violence and identifying peace”
Caleen Sisk, “Human Rights crisis of unrecognized tribes”
Caleen Sisk and Marc Dadigan, “Indigenous Knowledge”
Caleen Sisk, “This I Believe: Finding Resilience in Nature in Perilous Times”
Candi Brings Plenty, “Queer Indigenous, Two Spirit, cis Oglala Lakota Sioux Activist”
Casey Camp Horinek and Ninawa Huni Kui, “Indigenous Knowledge and Cosmo-Vision”
Cash Ahenakew, “We Too Are IDLE NO MORE: UBC”
Charlene Sul, EMAVoicesOfTheEarth Interview
Charlene Sul, “Ways Non-native People Can Respectfully Get Involved with Indigenous Ways”
Cheryl Clarke and Chrystos, “1993 OutWrite Writer's Conference”
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, “Prophecies, World Peace, and Global Healing”
Christi Belcort. “Artist Description of 'Giniigaaniimenaaning'“
Chrystos, “Creating Change 2011”
Chrystos, “Queer in Your Ear: Interview and Poetry Readings”
Clifford Mahooty “(06-02-18) The Zunis & the Star People”
Clifford Mahooty, “Traditional Zuni on the Past and Future”
Clifford Nae’ole “Culture, Arts, & Hospitality”
Clifford Nae’ole “The Legacy of Kaho`olawe: Protecting the Ancestors at Honokahua”
Corrina Gould, “Berkeley Earth Day”
Dave Courchene, “Indigenous Perspective on Health & Wellness”
Deborah A. Miranda, NVTV “Author of ‘Bad Indians’“
Debra Sparrow, “Musqueam weaver, artist and knowledge keeper”
Debra Sparrow, “The Honouring a Legacy: The Conversation of Debra Sparrow's Weaving Our Way”
Denise Ferreira da Silva, “The Crises of European Imagination”
Dian Million, “‘Indigenous Feminisms’ Affective Response to State Violence“
Eda Zavala, “Anthropologist, Sociologist, Curandera 'Healer'“
Elena Ortiz, Savannah Ortiz, Justine Teba, Jennifer Marley, Melanie Yazzie, “Pueblo Feminism & the Women's March”
Eriel Deranger, “Reclaiming Our Indigeneity and Our Place in Modern Society”
Esperanza Martinez, “This Changes Everything talk with Naomi Klein”
Frank Johnson, “Resisters reading group Wretched of the Earth- Chap 1 'On Violence'“
Freddy Mamani Silvestre and Gastón Gallardo, “New Andean: a new indigenous architecture”
Giovanni Batz, “The Four Invasions of Guatemala and Indigenous Resistance”
Gogo Ekhaya Esima, “Freedom, Expansion, and Growth in Altered States: Weaving the Spirit into Whole Person Care”
Gogo Ekhaya Esima, “Sick or Gifted? Bridging the Connection Between Mental Health Issues and Spirituality”
Gregory Cajete, “An Ecological Philosophy of Native Science: Living the Earth, Facing the Sun, Seeking the Light”
Gregory Cajete, “Rebuilding Sustainable Indigenous Communities: Applying Native Science”
Gregory Cajete and Patrisia Gonzales, “Natural Democracy and the function of Indigenous medicine”
Hengede Danshilacuo and Patricia Mukhim, “2nd World Congress on Matriarchal Studies”
Huanani-Kay Trask, “Democracy & Dissent in Post 9/11 America”
Haunani-Kay Trask, “The Politics of Academic Freedom as the Politics of White Racism”
Haunani-Kay Trask, “Who benefits from the misery of Native Hawaiians”
Ilarion Merculieff, “The Womb at the Center of the Universe”
Indigenous Peoples Forum On Doctrine of Discovery at Arizona Capitol
Inés Talamantez, “In The Space Between Earth & Sky”
Inés Talamantez, “2018 SGS Conference, Day 1”
Jacinta Koolmatrie, “The myth of Aboriginal stories being myths”
Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez, “Overcoming colonial legacies in the Caribbean”
Javier Garcia Fernandez, “Interviews from Caracas”
Jennifer Marley, “Native Liberation Conference - Building Native/ChicanX Solidarity”
Jennifer Marley, “Pueblo Resistance: Three Centuries of Pueblo Resistance”
Joely Proudfit and Nicole Lim, “On Indian Ground: California. A Return to Indigenous Knowledge”
Joy Harjo, “Poems are houses for spirits”
Justine Teba, “Toxic Traditionalism: Three Centuries of Pueblo Resistance”
Karim-Aly Kassam, “Co-generating Knowledge to Build Anticipatory Capacity for Climatic Change at the Local Level”
Karim-Aly Kassam, “How Do We Teach Students to Speak Truth to Power Thoughtfully with Humility and Grace?”
Karina Walters, “Innovative methods and sustainable health approaches to historical trauma”
Karina Walters, “Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference - Keynote”
Kavita Krishnan, “Capitalism, misogyny and sexual violence”
Kim TallBear, “Decolonial Sex and Relations for a More Sustainable World”
Kim TallBear, "Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities"
L. Frank Manriquez, “California Indians: Making a Difference”
L. Frank Manriquez, “The L. Frank Project”
Laila El-Haddad, “Politics and Parenting in Palestine”
Larry Cesspooch, “Ute Wisdom, Language and Creation Story”
Larry Grant, José Luis Ramírez, and Enrique Ramírez, “Wixáritari indigenous land defenders at UBC”
Layli Long Soldier, “8th Annual ILI Symposium 2017”
Layli Long Solider, “Lunch Poems”
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance”
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Facing the Anthropocene Luce Lecture”
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Restoring Nationhood: Addressing Land Dispossession in the Canadian Reconciliation Discourse”
Lee Maracle, “at North House”
Lee Maracle, “Celia’s Song”
Lee Maracle, “Connection between Violence against the Earth and Violence against Women”
Lee Maracle, “Waterloo Indigenous Speakers Series”
Leroy Little Bear, “Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “An Evening with Leslie Marmon Silko”
Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Eve Tuck, "Decolonizing Methodologies"
Lisa Grayshield, ”Indigenous Ways of Knowing In Counseling & Psychology”
Lisa Grayshield, “My Washoe Way of Knowing & My Professional Identity”
Lois Conner Bohna, Barbara Drake, Craig Torres, Lori Sisquoc, “Decolonizing the Diet”
Lorelai Chavez, “Three Centuries of Pueblo Resistance”
Loren Bommelyn, Valentin Lopez, Corrina Gould, Marshall McKay, “California Indian Genocide and Resilience”
Luna Merbruja, “For the Women Who Don't Get To Be Girls”
Malidoma Patrice Somé, “A Special Evening with Dagara elder”
Malidoma Patrice Somé, EMAVoicesOfTheEarth Interview
Malidoma Patrice Somé, “Finding your life's Purpose through Natural Rituals, and Community”
Manaháhtaan Symposium: Conversations on Lenape Identity
Ma-Nee Chacaby, “Two Spirit identities”
Mariaelena Huambachano, “The Khipu Model: An Indigenous Political Theory and Research Methods”
Margaret Mutu, “Indigenizing the University of Auckland”
Margo Tamez, “Fronteras 810: Lipan Apache Band of Texas”
Marta González, Maximiliano Bazan, and Zenaida Cantú, “Indigenous Mexicans in NYC: An Interview”
Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, “Historical Trauma in Native American Populations”
Masanobu Fukuoka, “the One Straw Revolution”
Maximiliano Bazan, “Technology Changes Everything - Mixtec”
Maximiliano Bazan, “The Things We Eat - Mixtec”
Melba Rakow, “Washoe Tribal History”
Mona Polacca, Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance, “Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers”
Natalie Diaz, “A Celebration of Natalie Diaz”
Natalie Diaz, “How to Sacrifice Your Brother Even When He Is an Aztec”
Natalie Diaz, “Manhattan is a Lenape Word”
Natalia Diaz, “They Don’t Love You Like I Love You”
Nicole Martin, “Three Centuries of Pueblo Resistance”
Nixiwaka Yawanawá, “Why Brazil’s indigenous people fight for the Amazon rainforest”
Ofelia Zepeda, “Legacies of the Tribal Languages of Arizona: Gifts or Responsibilities with Ofelia Zepeda”
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, “Honouring: Oodgeroo Noonuccal”
Palestine as a Queer Struggle
Panashe Chigumadzi, “Ubuntu as a solution to the crisis of the Western imagination”
Pat McCabe, “Earth Talk: Thriving Life - The Feminine Design and Sustainability”
Pat McCabe, “The Earth Talks: Indigenous Ways of Knowing”
Pat McCabe, “Thriving Life: Indigenous Ways of Knowing”
Patrisia Gonzales, ”The Unseen Realm in Indigenous Healing Systems”
Paula Gunn Allen, “The Sacred Hoop” (Part 1) and (Part 2)
Paula Gunn Allen, “The Women's Show”
Queen Quet, “Gullah/Geechee Sustainability at the College of Charleston”
Queen Quet “Histo-musical presentation of Gullah/Geechee history at Anderson University”
Queen Quet, “Keynote for Pollutant Response in Marine Organisms group”
Richard and Nora Marks Dauenhauer, “Documenting Tlingit Raven Stories”
Robert Henry, “Re “image” ining Indigenous Gang Involvement in Canada, Australia and New Zealand”
Robert J. Miller, ”Oregon, Indigenous Nations, Manifest Destiny, and the Doctrine of Discovery”
Robin Wall Kimmerer & Richard Powers with Terry Tempest Williams, “Tales of Sweetgrass & Trees”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Nick Estes, “Indigenous Peoples and International Solidarity”
Samah Jabr, “'Alienation and freedom: Education in the struggle for national liberation'“
Sarah Hunt, “Embodying Self-Determination: resisting violence beyond the gender binary”
Shareena Clanton, “Indigenous people want to be ‘the author of our own destinies’”
Sheila Humphries, “My stolen childhood, and a life to rebuild”
Sobonfu Somé, “A (M)otherworld is Possible”
Sobonfu Somé, “Embracing Your Gifts”
Sobonfu Somé, “Indigenous Voices”
Sobonfu Somé, “2014 Keynote Address, Harvard University”
Sobonfu Somé, “Prosperity and Abundance”
Steve Newcomb, “Indigenous Peoples Forum on the Doctrine of Discovery, Arizona”
Suzan Shown Harjo, Patsy Phillips, Lois Jane Risling, Mary Hudetz, “Strong Women/Strong Nations 5: Trail Blazers”
Tame Iti, “Mana: The power in knowing who you are”
Tink Tinker, “Individual Salvation vs. Cosmic Balance: An American Indian Perspective”
Tshering Tobgay, “This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative”
Vandana Shiva, “Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence Against Women”
Vandana Shiva, “Food for Health”
Vandana Shiva, “Growth = Poverty”
Vandana Shiva, “Keynote Speech - Earth at Risk Conference 2014”
Vandana Shiva, “on GMO issues”
Vandana Shiva, “Poison Free Food & Farming”
Vandana Shiva, “Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Culture of the Land)”
Vandana Shiva, “The Lunacy of Economic Growth”
Vandana Shiva, “We Must Fight Back Against the 1 Percent to Stop the Sixth Mass Extinction”
Vandana Shiva, “Why We Need an Organic Future”
Vincent Mann, “Old Ways in NJ with guest Vincent Mann”
Vincent Mann, “Oral Histories: Chief Vincent Mann”
Vincent Medina (host), ”Ohlone Spoken Word”
Vine Deloria, Jr., “American Indian politics, academic freedom, and ethnicity”
Vine Deloria Jr., “Our Relationship to the Unseen”
Vine Deloria Jr., “Spiritual Yearning in the West”
Vine Deloria Jr., “Technology’s Toll”
Vine Deloria, Jr., “The World We Used To Live In”
Vine Deloria Jr., “Time of its Own”
Walter Mignolo, “Coloniality and Western Modernity”
Winona LaDuke, “2019 NCECA Conference Keynote Speaker”
Winona LaDuke, "Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women"
Winona LaDuke, “Economics for the Seventh Generation”
Zenaida Cantú and Jhoana Montes, “The Forgotten Ones From the Mountain - Tlapanec / Me'phaa”

Books

Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Beth Brant (editor), A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (editors), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Chrystos, Fire Power
Chrystos, In Her I Am
Chrystos, Not Vanishing
Cristina Calderón, Hai Kur Mamashu Shis (I Want to Tell You a Story)
Deborah A. Miranda, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Four Arrows, Gregory Cajete, and Jongmin Lee, Critical Neurophilosophy & Indigenous Wisdom
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1963 version)
Gregory Cajete, A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living
Gregory Cajete, Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education
Gregory Cajete and Leroy Little Bear, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration, edited by Robert Innes and Kim Anderson
Ilarion Merculieff, Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan
Jeannette Armstrong, Whispering in Shadows
Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Joy Harjo, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001
Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses: Poems
Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
Lee Maracle, Celia’s Song
Lee Maracle, Ravensong
Lee Maracle, I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Malidoma Patrice Somé, Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community
Malidoma Patrice Somé, The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose through Nature, Ritual, and Community
Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief
Neolani Goodyear-Kaopua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika’ala Wright (editors), A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty
Nora Naranjo-Morse, Mud Woman: Poems from the Clay
Patrisia Gonzales, Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
Paula Gunn Allen, Life is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962-1995
Paula Gunn Allen, Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Cannons
Paula Gunn Allen (editor), Spider Woman’s Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned The Shadows
Roberto Cintli Rodríguez, Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas
Scott Morgensen, Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Vine Deloria Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Vine Deloria Jr., The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
Vine Deloria Jr., The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men
Zillah Eisenstein, Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism and the West

Academic Articles

Deborah A. Miranda, “Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California” in GLQ

Quotes

"What I say to really young people, and I’m talking to high school people, I say two things: (1) you’ve got to want your life. First of all, you’ve got to want it. And if you’re not in that place of wanting your life like that, that’s your first activism. You cannot preach about life when you don’t want your life. (2) As a human being, anything you do that is moving towards life automatically makes you a revolutionary on behalf of our species. Because, right now, the sum total of our actions as a species is not headed towards life. So you can pick up anywhere you want. There’s plenty of work to go around. We don’t have to fight over it.” – Pat McCabe

“Here we are now with an opportunity to support a radical paradigm shift. It’s not so radical because we know it, it’s been around for thousands of years. We do have an opportunity now to shift things and that would be to return to an Indigenous or Indigenist worldview. And by ‘Indigenist’ I mean, similar to feminism, it’s a set of values, beliefs, and knowledge that’s grounded in certain principles, and so you don’t have to be Indigenous heritage to follow an Indigenist worldview. That’s different from appropriation.” – Alex Wilson

“This is where we’re going now. We’re coming together all over the country. We’re going to braid each other’s lives together and create something new, not just for Indigenous people, but for everybody… All kinds of knowledge, all kinds of story, all kinds of art, all kinds of sensibilities, religions, philosophies, we could learn from that. We could put these things together. We could recreate the world… That’s what we’re here for, to create and recreate better and better and better.” – Lee Maracle

“So when a person like that, with all sincerity, wants to repair, wants to heal themselves, wants to heal or ask for forgiveness for the pathways of their own families, the families that they know to be, when they want to ask for forgiveness for those people, who am I or anybody else to say ‘sorry, we won’t forgive you, we’ll never forgive you [what you/they did] was horrible’? That just can’t happen. That has to end. In order for the healing to take place and for the incredible work to be done for our future generations to take place, all of that has to stop now. The forgiveness needs to take place right now and then the work to heal, not only our own persons but the environment, has to start now.” – Charlene Sul

“There are things that knowledge cannot eat… It needs to live in the mythical realm in order for its power to exist and to be well, or else something is killed within it.” – Sobonfu Somé

“We use plant, strong plant medicine, to connect in that way, to remove all the stuff that we carry in our minds, to remove all the sickness that we carry in our bodies, to remove all of this negativity that we keep in our spirits. Plant medicine heals us, cleans us, and then opens a profound understanding of our connection to the universe…” – Eda Zavalda

“There is a direct connection between ritual, and fun, and also play. Where does it come from? We can see it in children, whose world is all about play, and the choreography of it. Why do we grow up and find this rather childish? As if childish is less important than solemn and serious. Have we ever tried to do it more playfully? Just to see if in fact there is a greater chance of success than the serious. The bottom line is that the further away from the sacred a culture grows, the more serious and solemn it becomes. That’s to simply suggest that the closer a community or a people get to the sacred, the more access to joy, to playfulness, and to a lot of laughter.” – Malidoma Somé

“Doing things without thought may be a difficult concept for Western-trained minds to understand since the mind is perceived as the center of intelligence, whereas Indigenous people know that true intelligence comes as a result of suspending thought.” – Ilarion Merculieff

“How can a century or a heart turn if nobody asks: where have all the Natives gone? If you are where you are, then where those who are not here? Not here.” – Natalie Diaz

“In my tradition, community is the guiding light behind any being, any person, that helps that person or being achieve their life purpose. For without a community, an individual is lost without a place to contribute, without a place where the light can be shined upon them. And so I believe that is the very piece that creates a longing for us, the longing for community who can see me, who can accept me, not tolerate me. “ – Sobonfu Somé

“This book [Decolonizing Methodologies] was written out of passion, not anger; out of a desire to understand; and really out of a desire to turn research around; turn it around from being a negative; turn it around from being an abusive power. How do you shift the gaze? How do you turn something that’s been anti-you into something that can be positive towards you?” – Linda Tuhiwai Smith

“Broken men. Violated land. Violated women. We’ve been here before… We know that if you’re disconnected from the Earth you will be disconnected from each other, you will be disconnected from creation, and then you’ll violate creation. That’s what it is. And we’re creators [women], so we’re the first to get violated.” – Lee Maracle

“It is true we’re all in pain. But sometimes you laugh at pain and pain gets panicked. You start looking at pain with a strange eye of a clown, and the pain says ‘usually this is not how these people behave,’ and so it goes somewhere else. So it is important to realize the healing aspect of this whole thing… because, in the end, it is this inexplicable sound coming out of our throat chakra that sends a message to all that wants us to look so weighed down by the bad news so that it can then enjoy watching us. The minute we’re cracking up in front of it, then we’ve started creating tremendous discomfort in it. And that’s a show of our capacity to heal each other, as supposed to waiting for some kind of salvation agent to come down…” – Malidoma Somé

“Worse than that, they’re [water bottling companies] going to take pristine water that should be flowing down the waterway for all things needing water and they’re going to contaminate half of it by bottling it. But the other half, that people don’t realize, is that they’re also going to contaminate the part that they sell to you. The first thing they do is that they put disinfectant in the spring water so that it’ll have a longer shelf life because living water turns green. It grows things, because it has minerals it has everything that is for growing. That’s why we grow so well when we drink real water. We’re at a time now when most people don’t even know what water tastes like, what does real water taste like? We don’t know anymore. Most of the population has no idea.” – Caleen Sisk

“I was told that these teachings, they aren’t anything new. They’re called the original instructions.” – Mona Polacca

“In the centuries since the first attempts at colonization in the early 1500s, the invades have exerted every effort to remove Indian women from every position of authority, to obliterate all records pertaining to gynocratic social systems, and to ensure that no American and few American Indians would remember that gynocracy was the primary social order of Indian America prior to 1800.” – Paula Gunn Allen

“The world, the plants, the Earth, nature was there long before we occurred. It might then be another opportunity for humility to wonder: what is it that makes me not different from the tree I’m looking at? What is the kind of kinship that exists? What are the frequencies that I’ve lost that could have, if still alive, allowed me to hear the word of the tree as I was walking past it? [The tree] probably saying ‘hello, how you doing? little one.’ Instead, we have lived a life so far away from that, that if by any accident we walked passed a Redwood who said ‘hello, little one,’ it would startle the bejesus out of us. Right? So there’s the problem, and there’s a diagnostic of the issue right there.” – Malidoma Somé

“If any of you were ever taught from history books, it’s all a lie. Now, of course, we’re [Indigenous people] in these halls of educational facilities, institutions, where we’re telling the truth. And it’s not for anyone to feel guilty about, it’s to bring a consciousness, bring about an awareness that it’s [miseducation is] a disease of the mind.” – Paula Horne

“We’re trying to prevent this world from getting to the point where we can’t live herein existence because Mother Earth does not need you and me. She can heal herself. She will. She has. […] She’ll send those vibrations through the Earth and cause us humans grief. We have to find the understanding in that that we have to try to help save each other, and I believe that that is the Lenape way of thinking.” – Vincent Mann

“…I also proposed that we look to indigenous cultures because they’re very fascinating but, and here’s the real reason, is because they know the science of sustainability, they have known how to live in one place for an extended period of time, thousand years, 2,000 years, 3,000 years, with relative health, harmony, and happiness. They hold the science to sustainability.” – Pat McCabe

“In the very very beginning when we heard about the new people coming to our country, they were welcome to a certain extent, they were welcome by our people. We figured, ‘well, they’re going to turn into Indians anyway.’ The natural course of things, you live on the land, you develop the customs, you adopt the customs of the people near you, you eventually become like the people in the area. But little did we know, or did we realize, that many of these people that came from all over the world, they came with their portable religion, their icons, their philosophies, and they had a different perspective and different way of looking at the land than we did” – Hector ‘Lalo’ Franco

“What made me come back to this dearest place is that my great grandparents are made from the soils and the winds of this place. I too, am made of this soil.” – Roy Sesana

“Sound is a natural opener of the doorways between worlds. And so, in different rituals around the world, you will see that they use a lot of sound. That is to crack what is keeping us from spirit, to crack that open so we kind find a way to go home. In us being able to open those doors, something in us must die, which is our need to control. Because a lot of us are busy controlling versus surrendering to spirit, and so we are constantly like ‘I want to go home to spirit’ And so spirit says ‘Okay, are you really sure?’ And we say ‘Yes, I want to go home to spirit.’ And, in the end, spirit has to put you in places where you end up not being in charge so you can actually begin to come home to it.” – Sobonfu Somé

“My people say that we come from original beauty. We didn’t come from original sin. We came from original beauty, and that orientation is pretty radical in this modern world. And when somebody finds themselves creating actions that are working against life, which could be working against an individual, or working against water, etc. then part of our methodology for healing is first we don’t pathologize, which is a very favorite thing to do in modern culture. We say that this person is in need of being restored to the truth.” – Pat McCabe

“We have not to seek the truth, we have only to remove the lie so that the truth can stand in all of its radiant beauty.” – Osho Zenmaster

“There’s been a tide of humanity that is more than the tide of deniers; more than the tide of the white supremacists; more than the tide of those idiots that live in Washington D.C. and call themselves leaders. We’re the leaders. All power is assumed power. Assume your power now. Align yourself with the true power of the Mother Earth; the true power of the Father Sun; the true power of the sacred water; the truth power of the Father Sky; the true power of the Moon Mother who governs your rhythms; the true power of the Star Nation. Let’s win this one.” – Casey Camp Horinek

“Money is evil. That is the worst evil there is for humanity. When the great creator created the universe, the creator created the universe for all of us, gifted us water for all, land for all, but governments and multi-national corporations are just interested in profit for themselves. And the only way to turn a profit is to destroy nature... Nature is not just going to let us destroy her: that’s why there’s floods, and droughts, and severe weather, and why everything that’s happening is happening.” – Ninawa Huni Kui

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