Traditional Navajo Farming -- Songs and Stories from Rock Point

Photo Kris Barney 2018 A stocky blue corn with an ear forming — atTsé Chízhí Farm and Seeds.

Traditional Navajo Farming -- Songs and Stories from Rock Point

By Brenda Norrell
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French translation by Christine Prat at:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=4659

ROCK POINT, Navajo Nation -- Navajo elder Tabaahi Ts'osi, George Blue-eyes shared his knowledge of the magic and mystery of dry farming with a planting stick in the book 'Navajo Farming,' now a classic.

"George Blue-eyes plants by the stars. When the weather starts getting warm, he watches the evening sky to look for six tiny stars which in Navajo are called Dilyehe, and in English are called the Pleiades."

Dineh Wild Foods -- Voices from Tse Ho Tso

Near Tse Ho Tso, Fort Defiance, 1873

Dineh Wild Foods -- Voices from Tse Ho Tso

Censored News series on real life solutions to climate change, living on the land, growing food and walking

By Brenda Norrell

TSE HO TSO -- Navajo elder Howard McKinley, who lived to be nearly 100 years old, recalled how corn pollen was used in ceremonies and corn silk was used for healing teas. Navajo women sang corn grinding songs as they ground corn on grinding stones. Parched corn was ground together with pinons for nut butter similar to peanut butter.

McKinley remembered picking wild yucca bananas and wild potatoes. He remembered how blocks of frozen water from Blue Canyon were stored as chunks of ice for summer months in cut-rock houses near his home in Tse Ho Tso (Meadow between the rocks) known as Fort Defiance, Arizona.

Traditional Dineh Foods -- Foods for Survival and Health

Real life solutions to climate change: A new series on living on the land, growing food and walking from Censored News

Article and photo by Brenda Norrell
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As the corn is ripening in the fields, it is a good time to share these traditional Dine’ recipes. During the 1980s, Katherine Arviso, director of Navajo Foods and Nutrition, provided Navajos with a scientific study on traditional foods, revealing these are superior to modern foods of bleached flour, with too much sugar and salt. I’m happy to add that I had the honor of working with this program as a nutrition educator. Through the years, traditional Navajo foods and healing practices have been recognized by scientists, including the benefits of sweats and healing with herbs.

In the food study, juniper ash was among the traditional foods found to be packed with benefits. It was made by burning juniper branches and sifting out the ashes. It provided Navajos with a great source of calcium. Another of those traditional foods was dleesh, edible clay. 

Zapatistas 'A Challenge, A Real Autonomy'

Third and last part:

A CHALLENGE, A REAL AUTONOMY, A RESPONSE, SEVERAL PROPOSALS, AND SOME ANECDOTES ON THE NUMBER "300".

From the mountains of the mexican southeast.
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.

Mexico, August 2018.

Whats Next?

 Row against the current. Nothing new for us, we, nosotroas , zapatistas.

 We want to endorse - we consult with our peoples - any foreman will be confronted, anybody; and not only who proposes a good administration and a correct repression - that is, this fight against corruption and the security plan based on impunity-; also those behind avant-garde dreams seek to impose their hegemony and homogenize us.

 We will not change our history, our pain, our anger, our struggle, for the progressive conformity and their walk behind the leader.

 Maybe the rest will forget it, but we do not forget that we are zapatistas.

Zapatistas -- Part II: 'A Continent as a Backyard, a Country as a Cemetery, A Small Rebellion'

Part II: A Continent as a Backyard, a Country as a Cemetery, Pensamiento Único as a Government Program, and a Small, Very Small, Ever So Small Rebellion.

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, SupGaleano
300, Part II: A Continent as a Backyard, a Country as a Cemetery, Pensamiento Único as a Government Program, and a Small, Very Small, Ever So Small Rebellion.

From our analysis of the world we move to the level of the continent.

If we look above…

We see the examples of Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina, where supposedly progressive governments have not only been removed from power but prosecuted, and the governments that have taken their place are ones that have been trained as good overseers—obedient to capital, that is—ready to take on a realignment of the world plantation (though, to be fair, even in their cynicism they’re still pretty clumsy). Take Temer in Brazil, Macri in Argentina, and that guy in Ecuador who was supposed to be good because he was chosen by the now-persecuted Correa (a man of the “citizen’s revolution”, “a leftist” according to the progressive intelligentsia who backed him) but who, it turns out, is actually on the right: Lenin Moreno (yeah, paradoxically his name is Lenin).