Writings

Land, language, culture and history are all intertwined in powerful, enduring ways. To understand a particular place you must know the history. But to know the history you must know the land and the stories held in the land. What exactly is history? Is it something in...

Many Americans are currently suffering from an all-consuming addiction to politics. The media, happy to feed this obsession, announces breaking news at every opportunity, often pushing it directly to our electronic devices (to which people are also addicted)....

As a man, it is not appropriate for me to post #Me Too, as this hashtag is designated for women only; however, I do wholeheartedly support the movement of women to bring this issue out into the open and to educate the whole population, women and men, as to the extent...

My friend Harlan McKosato offers some insights on the 4th of July in his article, "Fourth of July Came and Went But Did We Educate the Youth?" He writes, I don’t think a lot of Americans, including Native Americans, even know the history of the Fourth of July. They...

Dialogue is at the center of SEED’s educational practice and philosophy. It is because of this that the meaning of “dialogue” and the particular history of how dialogue came to be practiced at SEED bear considerable explanation. I begin by introducing the particular...

[blockquote]You were born into a culture that was already in existence when you came in, but you came in order so that you could meet the challenges of that time in your history with your people. And you brought with you certain gifts....and those gifts specifically...

Originally published in Shift magazine, February 2006. Science is not the property of any one culture or language. Science is about the pursuit of knowledge and understanding the nature of reality. But there are different ways of seeing, different ways of knowing...

December 21st, 2012 is the end of time—the end of the world! But then again, it may only be the beginning of the next world—or the next cycle. Which is correct? Are we in the end times as prophesized by certain religious beliefs— or are we at the precipice of a new...

AN ORIGINAL MODEL OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION INFORMED BY INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING AND DIALOGUE (360 page PDF) This dissertation explores how Indigenous wisdom and dialogue can inform the process of creating a graduate institute that is an original model of...

Originally, our thoughts came from gratitude, because we felt blessed, loved and embraced by Mother Earth. We weren’t just living on Earth; we were embedded in and of the Earth—participating in the renewal of cycles as they manifested in the movements of the sun, the...