Culture, Sustainability, Land

  • Migration and Movement
  • Indigenous Sovereignty
  • Cooperative and Traditional Land Use

Jeremiah George

  • Squaxin Island Tribe member
    • Director of the Squaxin Island Tribal museum
  • Tribal land sustainability
    • Tribal community garden
      • Helps reconnect to the traditional tribal foods and knowledge
    • Food sovereignty

Alex White plume

  • Lakota tribe member
  • Grows industrial hemp in Pine Ridge, South Dakota on sovereign lands since 1998.
  • Has fought with the US government for decades to be able to grow and harvest his sovereign hemp.
  • The past three years he and his family have been able to successfully harvest his sovereign hemp.

Che Christ

  • Pii Paash (Maricopa)/Quechan from the Estrella Mountains in Arizona.
  • Speaks of social justice, love, circumstance, and respect through poems he writes

Josefina Vasquez Morales

  • Director of the Oaxacan Coffee Institute in Oaxaca, México.
    • This cooperative helps women coffee producers and their families understand their value of their coffee farm
    • Around 80% of the cooperative is women that focus on specialty coffees

Marco Antonio Flores-Quin

  • Coordinator of the Ireta P’urhepechan
    • Collective that is focused on strengthening and preserving the ancestral knowledge, culture, and identity of P’urhepechan
  • The collective is working at creating a community garden of their own
    • Here they plant corn, squash, chili, and beans from México
    • This garden helps children understand their culture and harvesting practices