Live from The Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle Day 1

Live From the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle

Watch Day 1 video by Govinda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp2VHfE_pq8

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 6, 2024

updated 

SEATTLE -- The Salish Sea Assembly welcomes everyone on Wednesday evening. "There's a fire going outside, and fresh salmon is being cooked," Govinda said as the gathering began.

The Warrior Song began the gathering.

Defending the Ancestors, Voices from Phillip Deere Round House

Movement Rights said, "We opened with the history of the Phillip Deere Round House from Bonnie Deere (Mvskoke). We are grateful to share this space for the Convening of the Four Winds and learn of what this space was created for and continues to be a place for the Mvskoke community. We gather here to be in ceremony, build strategy to protect indigenous lands, and defend the Rights of Nature."

Photo courtesy Movement Rights

Defending the Ancestors, Voices from Phillip Deere Round House

Update: March for Justice to 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, at dawn, as oral arguments begin on Sept. 25, 2024

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Sept. 7, 2024

OKEMAH, Oklahoma -- The ancestors who were left behind, fleeing for safety, were  buried in Alabama, when the Mvskoke were forced on the cruel Trail of Tears. Today, speaking at the Phillip Deere Round House in Oklahoma, Muscogee Creek described how it is all about the money these days for those who dug up the ancestors and handled them in a disrespectful way to build a casino.

Mvskoke Samuel 'Bonnie' Deere, son of Phillip Deere, spoke on the creation of the Phillip Deere Round House, and the devastation of 57 Mvskoke ancestors who were  dug up in Alabama for a casino.

Dineh Farmer Kris Barney 'Growing Food -- Connecting to our Ancestors and Ourselves'

Dineh Farmer Kris Barney 'Growing Food -- Connecting to our Ancestors and Ourselves'

Kris Barney
Tsé Chízhí Farm and Seeds

 Tsé Chízhí Farm and Seeds.

French translation by Christine Prat at

http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=4659

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ROUGH ROCK, Navajo Nation -- A long time ago, our Diné People looked at seeds and growing things as wealth. Livestock was wealth, good health was wealth, healthy children and grandchildren were wealth. The water, the rain, the wild animal meats, the wild plants, the land herself was wealth. We say, Yodí Ataałseí, Chí'yáán Altaałsei, many kinds of material wealth and many kinds of foods. Often, we talk about food sovereignty or hear it mentioned. The ability to feed ourselves, to be food independent. Independent of grocery stores, independent of corporations that ravage the earth with industrial agriculture.

So many terms and resources are applied to this type of critical analysis, but, what yields the most info about food, is the practice of growing food in the ways shown by our ancestors. There is a great disconnect many people have toward food, the alternatives offer little solutions and often lead to health issues. When we disconnect from the land or have been forced to, we sacrifice a great deal of knowledge, plant knowledge, animal knowledge, land knowledge. How we treat our bodies, what we feed our bodies is instrumental in determining how we choose to live and what good examples we leave for our children and grandchildren.

This hubbard squash is going in some mutton soup today.

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