Turquoise Pride at the Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, August 8, 2013, Published on Feb 21, 2014  The Website for the Festival is here. Our thanks here at EarthSayers.tv to Sean Cruz and the steering committee members. More music on YouTube, Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival.

Matika Wilbur, one of the Pacific Northwest's leading photographers, has exhibited extensively in regional, national, and international venues such as the Seattle Art Museum, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, The Tacoma Art Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts in France. She studied photography at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana and received a bachelor's degree from Brooks Institute of Photography in California. Her work led her to becoming a certified teacher at Tulalip Heritage High School, providing inspiration for the youth of her own indigenous community.

Carol Craig of the Yakama Nation, describes the landscape and the indigenous tribes way of following the food. This is the show opener for the Second Episode of Sustainable Today 2013 "The Oregon Country" Native Frontier, with an introduction by Host Kalin Lee.

 1306 Part 1 Native Perspectives, Published on Jun 6, 2013, Sustainable Today, Portland, Oregon.

Didier Lacaze with Rosa Canalos (Kichwa) founded the Sacha Warmi Center—an educational resource that will serve many people—located on the outskirts of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Pastaza region of Ecuador. It is part of PROMETRA (Promoción de la Medicina Tradicional Amazónica), a local Ecuadorian initiative created in 2005 by Didier and Rosa who was born in the village of Canelos and is Didier's wife.

Didier was interviewed by videographer Barry Heidt of Sustainability Action Media (SAM) as part of an online video campaign to increase the Indigenous Voices of Sustainability, co-sponsored by EarthSayers.tv, and focusing on wisdom keepers of Ecuador. Editing support by Norman Austin.

April 4-6, 2012, the Indigenous Environmental Network hosted a profound 3 day Rights of Mother Earth Conference at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. This is one selection of a presentation from the conference. More conference coverage is available on the IENearth YouTube Channel.

This video addresses closing remarks of conference:
Domination of and the destruction of the values of the land can be seen when our Indigenous Knowledge is ignored or not shared by all. If people are given a choice based on the reality of what happens to our world when we disregard for the systems that sustain us and what would be if we return to the ancient knowledge that sustained the people of this hemisphere for thousands of years.

Sequoyah Trueblood is a blood member of the Choctaw nation and a traveling Medicine man who works in the Mountains of British Columbia as well as traveled all over the world holding healing ceremonies. He has served in Vietnam as a member of the Green Beret Special Forces. Sequoyah embodies the heart doctrine and elaborates the ancient teachings of the Mamos and native peoples. He was a presenter at the SEED Graduate Institute's Wisdom from the Origins 2012 Conference.   Sequoyah was interviewed by
Barry Heidt of Sustainability Action Media and his video curated by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv

This short film created by JustTV highlights the Fire Inside Program, an alternative Aboriginal Justice Program in Winnipeg that brought young men & women to the Turtle Lodge this past March. At the Turtle Lodge the youth received their spiritual names, experienced fasting for two days & received traditional teachings through ceremony. Watch the video & listen to the voices of the youth themselves.

Natural leadership, intergenerational community building, and lifelong learning are themes Doug Cohen addresses as part of his work with students and youths.  In this  video he talks about the "Call of the Time" a teaching of the Brahma Kumaris organization and the importance of a pursuing a "diet of perception input that is very diverse." 

Doug was interviewed by Barry Heidt of Sustainability Action Media (SAM) at the SEED Graduate Institute's Conference, Wisdom from the Origins, September 13-17, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference featured a Youth Leadership and Scholarship Program led by Doug Cohen and Sabine Amend.

This excerpt of a much longer interview was edited for www.earthsayers.tv, voices of sustainability by Ruth Ann Barrett.

Author Kenneth Johnson talks about each moment in sacred time is a new beginning in the world, for all of us, renewal being the keyword. 

His workshop at the Wisdom from the Origins Conference: The Mayan Calendar and other Prophesies on the Future of Humanity in Albuquerque, September 13-17 is "On Living the Sacred Calendar." 

His newest book on the Mayan Calendar is available here. The Mayan Calendar does not "end" in 2012 as he discussed in his new book, "The Mayan Prophecies: The Renewal of the World, 2012-2072." 

Kenneth was interviewed by Kathie, the Inspiration Gal.