PPAK: Journeys in Native Food Sovereignty
Wednesday, November 18th
5-6:30pm PST . 8-9:30pm EST
Meeting ID: 829 9361 5868
Passcode: 143829
ABOUT THIS CLASS
This Native Food Sovereignty panel will be a collective discussion on Native community members and their current work in Farming and Food Sovereignty. Discussions will include Conserving Traditional Agroecosystems by Combining Principles of Permaculture & Pueblo Practices with Talavai Denipah-Cook, A journey story of Farming Start up and heritage seed planting in the Eastern Sierras of Paiute territory with Shannon Romero and Indigenous food farming and youth empowerment with Lupita Salazar of Northern Youth Project in New Mexico.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS
Talavai Denipah-Cook
Unvi Agandi, Talavi Cook is Summer clan from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Spider clan from Hopi, and Bitter Water clan from the Navajo Nation. Growing up in the desert of the Southwestern United States, the people, culture, and land has been a source of healing, challenges, and motivation for her to pursue a higher education. Talavi received a B.S. in Environmental and Organismic Biology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Talavi is a Master of Science student in the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Program at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Her future endeavors include going back to Indigenous communities to help keep ancestral lands resilient and provide land and culture-based learning programs to the youth.
Lupita Salazar
Performing Artist/Dancer. Indigenous Food Sovereignty, farmer and youth leader with the Northern Youth Project Executive Director - Arts Program Coordinator http://www.northernyouthproject.org/
Shannon Romero
Shannon D. Romero, Nüümü (Paiute) / Tiwa (Taos Pueblo) is a Graphic Artist/Entrepreneur/Recently Elected in July Vice-Chairwoman of the Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley turned Indigenous Farmer during the pandemic of 2020. Shannon is a first time farmer and utilized Tribal Organizations in early April for start-up crops and supplies. Currently residing in Payahuunadü (Owens Valley) the homelands of the Nüümü, where land is scarce and water rights are always in discussion. Shannon set forth to utilize the land and resources and continues to work with outside organizations to develop opportunities for local community members.
NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS
If you come from a financially marginalized background, and/or your finances have been devastated by Covid, and you are not able to pay or need to pay an amount less than listed ticket prices, please contact tisinat.dancingearth@gmail.com. Dancing Earth supports Indigenous & diverse community members to connect with, share & learn ancestral teachings, culture & roots. Dancing Earth welcomes community members of all ages, and cultural backgrounds.
About PPAK: Practicing Principals of Ancestral Knowledge
PPAK is a sustainability and life ways series that follows traditional Indigenous teachings and practices. These workshops are aimed to connect people back to living in balance with the Earth through traditional living practices of Native people. As all Indigenous cultures historically lived in balance with the cycles of nature, PPAK instructional series will incorporate these ways into contemporary teachings, demonstrations and Indigenous philosophy taught by Native community members and practitioners who have learned skills from Native elders.
ABOUT DANCING EARTH
Dancing Earth Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations dynamically activates our mission to support Indigenous dance and related arts, to encourage and revitalize awareness of bio-cultural diversity through artistic expression, for the education and wellness of all peoples.
Dancing Earth has been named by Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 to Watch,” and are recipients of the National Museum of American Indian’s 2010 Expressive Arts Award. Dancing Earth recruits, cultivates, and creates opportunities for emerging global Indigenous talents in all aspects of artistic collaboration - including dance, choreography, music, costume, lighting, video, stage managing, and arts administration.
Dancing Earth gathers Indigenous collaborators, including: Nations of Blackfoot, Metis, Coushatta, Ixil and Tzeltil Maya, Papanga, Cambiva, Yaqui, Purepecha, Shoshone, Dine, Tsalagi, Hopi, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Keresan of North Central and South America. They balance a commitment to share dances with regional, national and international communities at venues as varied as festivals, Universities, elementary-high schools, Native wellness gatherings, youth leadership symposiums, art museums, desert canyons, dried river beds, and symposiums for social-environmental justice.
Dancing Earth inspires creativity and cultural consciousness through community art practice, energetic dance training workshops, site specific rituals and full length eco-productions.