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The Indigenous Seed Sovereignty Network is a network of organizations including the…

• Traditional Native American Farmers Association,
• Tohono O’odham Community Association,
• Tsyunhehkw Project at Oneida,
• New Mexico Acequia Association,
• Tesuque Pueblo,
• White Earth Land Recovery Project, and
• Native Hawaiian Farmers.

Together, we are broadening and enriching our discussions related to traditional foods, diabetes, and community food systems. We are keen on the restoration of traditional food knowledge.

We oppose efforts to patent, modify, or otherwise control the food resources which have nourished our communities throughout our history.  We organize legislatively against Genetic Engineering of Wild Rice, Taro, and other traditional crops, and actively oppose biopiracy of medicinal and other plants. 

Meanwhile, we work to create local food economies which provide healthy, abundant nourishment through traditional methods and seed stocks. From rescue of traditional corn and squash varieties and food preservation techniques at Oneida to broad-based political campaigns in the New Mexico State Legislature, to ongoing programs with our youth and elders, the Network is taking a leading role in preparing for truly sustainable local food economies. 

Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement, tells his story for the first time and presents an insider’s look the group and its protest events—including the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee—enhanced by dramatic photographs.

INTERVIEWER

It’s a popular supposition that there was much more communication between writers in the twenties. The Round Table discussions in the Algonquin, for example.

PARKER

I wasn’t there very often—it cost too much. Others went. Kaufman was there. I guess he was sort of funny. Mr. Benchley and Mr. Sherwood went when they had a nickel. Franklin P. Adams, whose column was widely read by people who wanted to write, would sit in occasionally. And Harold Ross, the New Yorker editor. He was a professional lunatic, but I don’t know if he was a great man. He had a profound ignorance. On one of Mr. Benchley’s manuscripts he wrote in the margin opposite “Andromache,” “Who he?” Mr. Benchley wrote back, “You keep out of this.” The only one with stature who came to the Round Table was Heywood Broun.

36.  Emu’s Nest (2001)76 x 43 in, acrylic on canvasJames P Simon

Australian Aboriginal

The emu is the law keeper and protector of the law. This law is from the Dreamtime and cannot be changed unless the ancestors intervene.

A world renowned contemporary female mäori artist from Aotearoa-New Zealand. Her tribal affiliations include, Ngati Porou, Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngati Konohi, Te Whanau a Ruataupare. She has an extensive record of exhibitions during the last 25 years. She has been active in celebrating the strength and vitality of mäori ancestry and ideas in her visual presentations. Her work has also involved reflections of mäori women and of motherhood.

In the old days, the land felt a great emptiness.

It was waiting…

waiting to be filled up…

waiting for someone to love it…

waiting for a leader.

And he came on the back of a whale…

a man to lead a new people.

Our ancestor, Paikea.

Director Niki Caro discusses her film “North Country” that stars Charlize Theron in the real life story of Josey Aimes, the female coal miner who started a class-action lawsuit against her employer for sexual harassment.