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Lyla June on The Truth of Thanksgiving

It's time to acknowledge the bitter reality - and only then can the healing begin. 

As we come together to celebrate family, food and a tradition that is largely fiction, many of us have been delving into deeper truths about our nation – because we are ready, because those who hold those histories are ready, and because it’s time.

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Lyla June on the Forest as Farm

Science reveals that ancient foodscapes were cutting-edge regenerative agriculture

Science reveals that ancient foodscapes were cutting-edge regenerative agriculture

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Kelp Gardens, Piñon Forests  

Lyla June on Renovating Native Foodways as a Path to Sovereignty

Lyla June on Renovating Native Foodways as a Path to Sovereignty

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How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies

Water Protectors Take the Movement’s Lessons Forward

For Sicangu Lakota water protector Cheryl Angel, Standing Rock helped her define what she stands against: an economy rooted in extraction of resources and exploitation of people and planet. It wasn’t until she’d had some distance that the vision of what she stands for came into focus. “Now I understand that sustainable sovereign economies are needed to […]

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Women of Standing Rock: LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

Lakota grandmother and Sacred Stone Village founder on sovereignty, healing and touching the Earth: Part II

In the harrowing days of the Standing Rock resistance to the Black Snake, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard — Tamakawastewin, or Good Earth Woman — became an icon, though she’s quick to step away from such titles with her self-deprecating humor. The Lakota historian’s fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from plowing past her son’s […]

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Sovereign Sisters in Lakota Lands

Water Protector Cheryl Angel on a Magical Staff, the Black Hills and Economic Sovereignty

Lakota Spiritual Activist Cheryl Angel believes in listening to her dreams – the ones that come to her at night as she sleeps, and the ones that arrive as messengers from the road as she travels the globe. She has been traveling extensively over the past two years, connecting with indigenous and non-indigenous women and […]

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Many Standing Rocks: Three Years and Still Fighting

An interview with Sicangu Lakota Spiritual Activist and Water Protector Cheryl Angel

The third anniversary of the Water Protectors movement at Standing Rock passed by quietly earlier this month. With the pipeline construction industry booming across the U.S. and Canada, Donald Trump seeking to bulldoze the cancelled Keystone XL Pipeline through more than 800 miles of unceded Lakota treaty territory, and at least nine state governments working […]

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