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Convener: Bill Pfeiffer
Session Participants: Charles Uchu, Ethan Roland, Jazu Stine, Ian Trefethen, Shauna Lynn, Maya Apflebaum, Jess Conzo, Ali Rosenblatt, Marci Linker, Diane Brandon, Chuck Lidz, Stephan Brandon, Richard Kerver, Bill Pfeiffer, Jane Bernstein
Time: Sat. 11a - 12:30p
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DESIRED ACTION: Creating an open dialog between people of indigenous heritage of this region with those of more recent lineage for the purpose of creating sustainability together.

INTRODUCTION:
  • Looking at the issue in a longer term, a "Deep Time" way of looking at things. Seven generations.
  • The key question to ask from this perspective is one of connection, "What is the Land saying?", we are the Land
  • Sustainability is in our genes. We've just been cut off from it... it is time to remember.

NOTES:
  • Speak from the heart, act from the heart, listen with the heart
  • Look at the patterns amongst us, in nature, that we can flow with
  • Recognition that some Native people have expressed frustration that "we" (the european culture) ask or expect that Native people will come to teach us, when they are incredibly busy working with the issues of their own communities... which in many ways we have caused or propagated
  • Becoming aware that we are participant in the destruction, get in touch with your grief/despair that is suppressed
  • It's not about creating a new paradigm, it's about remember our connection and sustainability in our genes
  • Mention of our presence at Sirius, a Land with both a painful (massacres) history and a beautiful one before that when the Land was respected
  • The awareness that some people on the reservations are struggling to remember also and would like to open dialog so that we can help each other remember
  • LOCAL ISSUE: There is a big box store looking at building on a Native burial ground in Greenfield
  • We don't need to dwell in the past, but recognize we are part of a continuum, we are here now to be part of the Cycle of Life
  • We can be as smart and functional about sustainability, but it won't take root unless we walk the spiritual path of honor, "The Good Red Road"
  • It's community, not individual isolation and sustainability, that gives us strength
  • Balance. Learning that we need to balance our perspectives from past and present. Balance of Heart-Spirit-Mind, not just Mind, is needed to truly address sustainability
  • Come back to your Mother. Earth. She is truly what moves us and is sustainability.
  • We need to step past the word "sustainability" as we talk about what needs to be done and look on what we are doing as Regeneration.


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