Building a “next system” to supplant the current systemic drivers of our economic and political crises should include the wisdom of Indigenous cultures rooted in non-capitalist social and economic forms that center life and nature.
This panel discussion hosted by The Democracy Collaborative features Freida Jacques, Turtle Clan Mother of the Onondaga Nation; Jeff Corntassel of the Cherokee Nation and professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Victoria; and Miki’ala Catalfano, a Hawai’i expat and co-director of Native Roots Network. Moderating is Stephanie Gutierrez, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and founder of Hope Nation LLC. Introducing the panel is Joe Guinan, president of The Democracy Collaborative.
This conversation was originally produced by The Democracy Collaborative at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znyv0YYxfcA&ab_channel=DemocracyCollaborative.
Photo by Mladen Borisov on Unsplash.
Going Further:
- Community Wealth Building: A Lakota Translation (Democracy Collaborative)
- The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (National Museum of the American Indian)
- What Thriving Communities Look Like With The Indigenous Environmental Network (Rhodes)
- Radical Economics: Centering Indigenous Knowledge, Restoring the Circle (Roanhorse)
- Applying Asset-Based Community Development in an Urban Indigenous Context (Sokoluk)
