June 2010

  • How We Relate to the Earth.

    By ecoscott on 6/19/10 2:12pm
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    The environment is in trouble, we all know this. In fact, we don’t know how bad it is, though. And you know what? It’s not really our fault. Let me clarify- it’s not our fault we don’t know how bad it is- we’ve been raised with a way of doing things, the same way any culture or society raises the people within it to do things in the best possible way that works with their context. What we have to deal with is that the way we (and by we I am talking about the United States, and the rest of the developed world by extension) have been raised to live is inherently destructive. We do things well- we produce, move and supply the comforts that only kings and queens had in the rest of human history to even people without a dollar to their name.

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  • How A First Nations People Got their Salmon Back--With Help from the Maori

    By lisala on 6/3/10 7:10pm
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    The Winnemem Wintu ("middle river people") are one of the nine sub-groups or bands of the Wintu tribe, whose traditional lands were along the lower McCloud River, above the Shasta Dam, and including Mount Shasta. Modern day Redding, California, is the the nearest large city. Although the Winnemem Wintu traditional language is recognized as the North Eastern dialect of the Northern Wintun, a member of the Wintuan language group, itself a member of the much larger Penuatian language family, they are not currently listed by the U. S. Federal agencies as a Federally recognized tribe. Of the original nine bands of Wintu, today only three survive, and their traditional lands and sacred places are in constant danger of more flooding from California's Shasta dam.

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