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First nations food–rebuilding resilience across the land

First nations food–rebuilding resilience across the land

by radiocafe | Oct 6, 2020 | Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, New Mexico

Part of the experience of colonization for Native people has been the denial of their long-standing practices of agriculture. Now indigenous voices are becoming part of the conversation about how to think in a healthy and holistic manner about food.

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The Reindeer Chronicles: Stories of restoration from around the planet

The Reindeer Chronicles: Stories of restoration from around the planet

by radiocafe | Sep 8, 2020 | Books, Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, New Mexico

In her new book, Judith Schwartz takes us to five continents and tell us stories of people restoring devastated landscapes–and overcoming deep conflicts that stem from degraded ecosystems. The results are phenomenal.

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Bringing Buffalo back home

Bringing Buffalo back home

by radiocafe | Jul 28, 2020 | Down to Earth, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous

The Eastern Shoshone people traditionally survived with the buffalo, and their way of life suffered when tens of millions of buffalo were killed by the US government. But now they’re returning to the land–and starting to renew a culture.

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Hopi farming: a 2000-year-long agriculture experiment

Hopi farming: a 2000-year-long agriculture experiment

by radiocafe | Jun 23, 2020 | Activism, Down to Earth, Education, Environment, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous, Science & health

Hopi farmers must be doing something right: they have survived and grown their own food for hundreds of generations. We talk to Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson about their regenerative farming and cultural practices––and the challenges to maintaining them.

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Growing food for healthy communities in Indian Country

Growing food for healthy communities in Indian Country

by radiocafe | Mar 3, 2020 | Down to Earth, Food & agriculture, Native & indigenous

Kelsey Ducheneaux is a fourth generation regenerative beef cattle rancher, and she works with the Intertribal Agriculture Council helping producers to work within the current system–and reinvigorate native foods and practices.

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Wildlife, jazz, the a-bomb, peyote, and radio…

Wildlife, jazz, the a-bomb, peyote, and radio…

by radiocafe | Dec 5, 2019 | Activism, Books, Environment, Native & indigenous, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

…those are just some of the stories of Jack Loeffler‘s fascinating memoir, Headed into the Wind — a tale of explorations in consciousness from nature and indigenous mind to music and the counterculture.

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Documenting an Indigenous Day of the Dead

Documenting an Indigenous Day of the Dead

by radiocafe | Oct 21, 2019 | Arts & films, Native & indigenous, Santa Fe New Mexican, Spirituality & religion

The P’urhépecha people were once part of a major empire, contemporaneous with the Aztecs. Their rituals and beliefs have survived to the present day, and have been documented by two Santa Fe filmmakers.

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Lost City of the Monkey God

Lost City of the Monkey God

by radiocafe | Oct 14, 2019 | Native & indigenous, Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health

How do you find an ancient Mesoamerican city under a dense and dangerous rainforest? Steve Elkins figured it out, and Doug Preston wrote a book about it…and now it’s the cutting edge of archaeology.

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Tewa Women United: Celebrating 30 years

Tewa Women United: Celebrating 30 years

by radiocafe | Sep 9, 2019 | Activism, Native & indigenous, New Mexico, Race/class/gender, Santa Fe New Mexican

There are no limits to what a group of women can do when they get together–and organize. Corrine Sanchez of Tewa Women United tells about three decades of activism, mutual support, and social change.

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Medicine and miracles in Navajo Country

Medicine and miracles in Navajo Country

by radiocafe | Jun 13, 2019 | Books, Education, Native & indigenous, New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican

Before Erica Elliott decided to become a physician, she worked as a teacher on the Navajo reservation–where she also experienced being a shepherd, going into trance in peyote ceremonies, and being kissed by a mountain lion. We talk about her new memoir.

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