John Mohawk - Survive and Thrive | Bioneers

In this expansive tour of human civilization leading to today's climate crisis, Native American scholar John Mohawk explores the interrelationship of climate change and human evolution. For most of our history as hunter-gatherers and farmers, we retained an intimate knowledge of the natural world that supported us, especially plants. That knowledge, he observes, is being lost at radical rates today. Re-establishing our intimacy and kinship with the plant world is key to surviving dramatic climatic changes. He shares insights about the "Native American pragmatism" that successfully balanced the practical with the spiritual for thousands of years.
"All of the survival techniques we learned about our relations to cultivars and everything at this hour stands in peril. And our relationship to wild plants stands in peril. The big human relationship to our cultural heritage is on the verge of extinction, and we need to change that."
This speech was presented at the 2004 Bioneers National Conference and is part of the Indigenous Knowledge, Vol. 1 and Nature, Culture and Spirit, Vol. 1 Collections.
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[@ricb541]

This Human Being was / is an absolute Treasure. So many beautiful minds at Bioneers...
If I had to pick a favorite.........
Thank-you John Mohawk.

[@lynnequity7296]

Brilliant observations in appreciation. Thank you, John Mohawk.

[@leohand1007]

Think about John's words of wisdom when you vote. Many indigenous elders say that we are nearing the point of no return, but too many of politicians are in denial. Which is more important, the luxuries that we can presently accumulate or the miseries that our decedents will endure due to our ignorance and greed?

[@GuttersYT]

love this

[@colleenbonniwell4226]

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[@e-maikey4543]

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🐳🐳🐳Thank You🐳🐳🐳

[@aarondavenport3143]

I wasn't aware that Native Americans were agrarian?

[@jazzgrrrl2970]

What, seriously? They developed corn from a simple grass, and cultivated gardens that fed cities of 40,000 people In Mexico, Guatemala and the US Southwest. They showed the colonists how to sew North American crops, as the seeds brought from Europe weren't viable.