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Join Us For LovingKindness Meditation
All ages and experience levels are invited.
Attend any or all sessions.
These sessions will reduce stress while bolstering your immunity and mental functioning. You will experience an immediate positive change in your body and mind during and after the sessions! This will be especially helpful for frontline workers. We will pay special attention to Indigenous/Native American world views.
Who?
Meditation teacher Vishaka Smith, Ph.D. will guide you through gentle stretching and non-sectarian meditations. Vishaka has been teaching meditation since 2012.
5 days 11 hours ago
"ONE OF THE MOST POTENT MYTHS of mainstream U.S. historiography concerns what Indigenous archaeologist Michael V. Wilcox calls “terminal narratives”: an obsession with the death,…
The Empire of All Maladies | Nick Estes
Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.
1 week 10 hours ago
The money came from the State of California. About time!
Native American tribe gets back Big Sur ancestral lands after 250 years
A Native American tribe has reclaimed a small part of ancestral lands on California’s scenic Big Sur coast that were lost to Spanish colonial settlement nearly 250 years ago. The Esselen Tribe of M…
1 week 6 days ago
The Canadian press acknowledges the worth of indigenous knowledge in making environmental decisions. It's time for the US to do so as well!
Seeing nature through Indigenous 'lens' might improve environmental decision-making | CBC Radio
As various levels of government become more serious about climate change, there has been heightened interest in incorporating Indigenous knowledge in that effort.
2 weeks 3 days ago
Excellent!
Portland contemporary art center Yale Union is shutting down and transferring its building to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
2 weeks 6 days ago
Opinion | After a Trail of Tears, Justice for ‘Indian Country’
From my elders, I learned that justice is sometimes seven generations away or more — and inevitable.
3 weeks 19 hours ago
Blasting Middlefork Nooksack River Dam to Restore Salmon! m.facebook.com/NooksackIndianTribe/posts/1640379189448550?refsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Flogin%2Fdevice-based%2Fpassword%2F&_rdr
Blasting begins on Middle Fork Nooksack dam to restore salmon habitat
Work has been underway at the site since the start of the year. The project will eventually restore 16 miles of fish habitat after the dam is removed.
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