[Scpg] SoCal Indigenous Living

[Warren Brush]

Hello Colin,
In response to your announcement, I disagree with you on your  
hypothesis that: "There's an audience for gathering to practice and  
share stone-age/primitive/indigenous skills. We see Quail Springs (a  
permaculture farm) offering workshops that fit in this category--and  
there seem to be many for whom gathering to practice stone-age skills  
and awareness is easier to get excited about than permaculture.
Partly this may be because the stone-age skills are portable while  
permaculture design is more meaningful when one has long-term control  
over some land.."  Firstly, origin skills are not dead in the "stone  
age" yet live on today through many peoples and traditions because  
they have developed over thousands of years of people's relationship  
with the land.  When you relegate it to the past you demean its spark  
of life that still feeds the world.  Most people in times where they  
were intact with the land had very definitive caretaking roles with  
the wild lands that more often than not crossed over into cultivation  
of the forests for better hunting and foraging.  This is where  
Permaculture draws much of its foundational root.

Being able to move was generally relegated to the young person needing  
to find who they were and where they are by defining those things  
outside of themselves to better be able to see the substance of who  
they are inside.  When you look at the land, whether a hunter,  
planter, or casual observer....you are exerting a form of "control"  
over the land especially if you are working from ego rather than from  
divination. There was usually part of the tribe that was nomadic  
(ranging from one traditional hunting ground to another) and another  
that was sedentary cultivators and gatherers.  In either case, there  
were long-term relationships with the same lands or as I hear it from  
you, "control," that allowed for enhancements to human and non-human  
life.  It is well documented that land that is being care-taken by  
humans in a stewardship effort can be more vital in diversity,  
resilience and stability than lands without human intervention.  This  
leads me to believe that humans have a purpose here on earth and it is  
wrapped into our ability as stewards of the lands through long term  
relationships.

I hope you are well and wrapped in the learning journey of life.

Blessings,
Warren

Warren Brush
Co-Founder
Quail Springs Learning Oasis
Trees for Children
Mentoring for Peace


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sustains us and to honor those things deeply"







On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Colin Leath wrote:

> There's an audience for gathering to practice and share stone-age/ 
> primitive/indigenous skills. We see Quail Springs (a permaculture  
> farm) offering workshops that fit in this category--and there seem  
> to be many for whom gathering to practice stone-age skills and  
> awareness is easier to get excited about than permaculture.
>
> Partly this may be because the stone-age skills are portable while  
> permaculture design is more meaningful when one has long-term  
> control over some land.
>
> Whatever the reason, to help communicate about SoCal stone-age skill- 
> sharing events there is now
> The SoCal Indigenous Living google group
>
> Please announce any SoCal (SLO and south) skillshares there--
>
> If there already are socal networks for this, please let me know.
> peace,
> Colin
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