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Manoomin, wild rice, is the sacred sustaining grain of the Anishanaabe (Ojibwa) people, who have for eons stewarded the lake ecology of this unique cultural food. Genetic modification puts both the wild rice and its environment at risk. Winona La Duke is an activist, author and former vice presidential candidate who is fighting for indigenous food sovereignty.
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Of Navajo-Ute heritage, R. Carlos Nakai is the world's premier performer of the Native American flute. Originally trained in classical trumpet and music theory, Nakai was given a traditional cedar wood flute as a gift and challenged to see what he could do with it. Since 1983, he has released over 35 albums on the Canyon label. While well-grounded in the traditional uses of the flute, Nakai has explored new musical settings including new age,…
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Dune Lankard, an Eyak Athabaskan native from the Copper River Delta region of Alaska and lifelong commercial fisherman, became a community activist and preservationist when the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill desecrated his homelands and waters. He describes the preservation of ecosystems and the people that inhabit them as the way to maintain healthy, thriving economies for businesses and communities into the future.
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The revered Gwich'in Elder for Alaska, who had won many awards for her work to protect the Arctic National wildlife Refuge from oil drilling, including the Goldman Environmental Prize, Depicts how her people are being severely impacted on the lines of Climate Change, and how they are responding.
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DANCING EARTH spins, stomps and spirals into life on the world’s dancing grounds as a collective of intertribal Indigenous dance artists, under the leadership of internationally respected choreographer Rulan Tangen. Rooted in the spirit and energy of the first peoples and the land, the mythic power of DANCING EARTH‘s creations respect, embrace and expand the context of Indigenous culture into vital contemporary relevance. http://www.dancingearth.org/ Support…
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