Manoomin Lifeway Restoration: June Community Resilience Award
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- This month's Community Resilience Award goes to Amber Lightfeather for her work with wild rice- manoomin- and manoomin lifeway restoration. This video contains info on wild rice that was new to me, and I am way into this stuff! Thank you Amber for your teaching.
00:00 Introduction
01:55 Manoomin feeds us
04:05 Manoomin Lifeway and People
07:45 Harvesting and Processing Manoomin
12:50 Living the Lifeway
17:55 Warning: Cultivated Wild Rice is Not Manoomin
Some resources:
Bird Info (and more!):
files.dnr.state.mn.us/wildlif...
Short GLIFWC resource on Manoomin- great, accessible, info:
glifwc.org/publications/pdf/W...
Incredible climate resource by GLIFWC for further learning:
glifwc.org/ClimateChange/Vuln...
Connect with White Earth Nation to support the rights of Manoomin:
sites.google.com/umn.edu/righ...
Donation link (also in pinned comment)
www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Please help refill the community award pool & thank Amber for her teaching by donating at this link. Any pool overflow this month will go into her hands to be stewarded for her community. www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=UP2SRHJCCERK2
As of Wednesday morning, we have $75 in award-directed pledges coming in every month. We've had an additional $125 come in so far thanks to the incredible generosity of this community- so we are at $200 for next month's award. Let's see if we can get closer to a full award for July's winner!
Way to go Amber! That is amazing!
It is always beautiful to learn more about the traditional lifeways of indigenous people, and see how they exist despite huge efforts to remove them. Wonderful work 💜💜💜
@Reichukey the sheer grit of the tribal nations is incredible and inspiring. Lot of great energy growing in the northern Midwest - I've heard more indigenous language spoken in the last 3 years than ever before in my life.
This is a very helpful explanation of the broader benefits of wild rice cultivation by traditional ways to the overall ecosystem. All good info to help build support for this important element of sustainability.
@jaycoldwell I've been thinking a lot about wetlands recently- with the huge storms we've been getting & are likely to keep getting in parts of the midwest, wetlands are an important part of the way forward. But I think many of us don't know how to see wetlands as human places, as places where humans are part of the picture & where we can also be nourished.
What a fun idea! Throw a dance party and thresh the rice at the same time!
@CS-ms2ip the dancing is hard work, so the dancers change out frequently. I hear it is a good opportunity for guys to show off- definitely sounds like a fun time
This project should be eligible for grants from the US Department of Agrigulture. Creating nutirition and maintaining habitat in one action is an essential human activity that should be more actively supported. Billions of $ are spent to subsidize Agribusiness conglomerates and fast food production in the US. This Restoration supports Native Communities and a way to return to the land.
@bettywing52 this last federal funding season we saw many more native communities get food system funding, but it's mostly to build canning or processing facilities. Which is important, but it's not the same as supporting or protecting these deep natural systems!
The type of food system Amber is describing is just starting to be seen as real and valid by the "professional" world. Like, not a dream from the past, a contemporary lifeway. Which is so bizzaro, right? I mean, people are living this today. Sadly still a common experience for indigenous people, this type of jarring erasure of lived experience.
All of this!!!👆👆👆
Thank you so much for such an informative talk. I'm so interested in wild rice and glad to know that cultivated wild rice isn't the same.
I would love to know if there is an ethical way to purchase the rice that supports the communities that restore the water and harvest sustainably.
@lisalikesplants I would suggest Native Harvest, they sell hand-harvested wild rice through White Earth Nation. Search for rice on their menu.
nativeharvest.com/
That site is a subsidiary of these awesome people.
www.welrp.org/
Thank you Dr.Emily for sharing this great video with us..I have heard about other native nations that were harvesting and producing Wild Rice as I'm also part Native American..a big thank you to Amber Lightfeather and her family and the various tribes for bringing this to the forefront of sustainability practices..this is such a great program and it is desperately needed..I will go out of my way to promote Native Harvest and White Earth Nation..We need as human beings to become one with this planet..If we work to protect it and sustain it instead of trying to go against it and destroy it we will all be much better for it..Its mutual we help and protect it it protects us and sustains us as well..
@michaelschiessl8357 thank you and I 100% agree!
There is a good link in the video description for connecting with White Earth Nation- they are doing really important work if you want to read more.
Woo! Time to get weird.
@davidwatson7604 I hope this video inspires someone to get a ricing license. Like, Amber really presents a living pathway here, I was surprised by the practical and financial stuff she brought up near the end of the video.
Thank You Sooo Much !!! = Thank You Amber !!!
@jamesfox2857 I think Amber is so cool. She says she's willing to do more cultural teachings- let us know areas of interest!
@@AmericanResiliency i am an open book , just dont try to mislead me , and i am ok , as many whom have tried to mislead me no longer have a platform to work from , But PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THAT PERSONALLY = PLEASE .
@jamesfox2857 all cool. I tell you, why I started doing this work, I want to be able to tell things as true as I can. In institutions, there's a lot of pressure to stay on message. But the message is changing. We gotta call it like we see. I'll do my best to never mislead. And if I make mistakes, I want to be called out, so I can try to make correction.
@@AmericanResiliency Myslef = The same , so what ever is needed to grow i am here