Part of the Original Instructions resides in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

“reverence movement”

It’s a world of kinship where all life is related.

These stories are seeds. It’s our deepest wish that they land in fertile ground to sprout and spread.

for humans to get along with each other and to respect our relations on the earth, we must embrace and practice cognitive and cultural pluralism (value diverse ways of thinking and being). We need to not only tolerate difference but respect and celebrate cultural diversity as an essential part of engendering peace.

It’s precisely what humanity most needs now to slip through this epochal keyhole of history where the stakes are the very survival of our species and countless other beings in the web of life.

He has also served as executive editor and editor of the Bioneers anthology books series and executive producer and cowriter of the award-winning radio series: Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature.

Nanabozhoo is the Anishinaabeg culture hero and trickster figure who uses primal fire to ignite the Sun.

People who refused to close their hearts even when they were up against unimaginable suffering, loss, and disrespect. In spite of all this, their instructions are to be thankful, to be kind, to love and take care of one another.