A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
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When I boarded a plane bound for Buenos Aires last month, I had no idea what was in store for me in the wilds of Argentina. As President and Co-Founder of the Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute, I embarked on a mission to explore opportunities to develop an eco-tourism segment for our non-profit organization. While it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the summer sky is sizzling in Buenos Aires. I stepped off the plane in full winter gear to sweltering 100 degree temperatures. Afte...
Last night as my body rested, my spirit was taken back to my homeland to a time about 200 years ago. The place was the same, but there were no manmade roads, only dirt paths. I was searching for my way back home. The structure that kept me safe and warm for so many years was built along the Kanien’tarako:wa’nenhne, (the place of the big water, otherwise known as the St. Lawrence River.) In the winter, the river would freeze so thick, that a herd of elk can cross to the other side without cra...
As the Haudenosaunee people continue to stand their ground at the Canadian Border crossing young Kanewakeron Gray has just won his battle with US Customs at the Mexican border. The Gray Family traveled to Mexico last November to participate in a corn ceremony in the ancient village of Bacabureachi. The Feria del Maiz is an annual ceremony of the Tarahumara indians of the Sierras of Northern Mexico. The Feria del Maiz is a ceremony honoring the blue and white corn used daily by the Tarahumara...
The 5th and 6th grade classes of the Akwesasne Freedom School finished out their year with a humanitarian project that reached out to native people from 20,000 miles away in a the tiny village of Huecco Uno, in the Ocongate Region of the Peruvian Andes. The students were connected to the Quechua village through Lorraine Gray, after she returned from South America earlier this year, working on several agricultural projects in Peru and Bolivia. During her time working hand in hand with the...
Leaders of the local agricultural organization Kanenhi:io Ionkwaienthonhakie (We Are Planting Good Seeds), are now working on several ideas for projects with the Quechua natives of Bolivia and Peru. Kanenhi:io’s Project Manager, Lorraine Gray, recently returned from a three week fact-finding and agricultural exchange with several groups based in the Andes’ Mountains of Peru and Bolivia. “It was a life altering experience,” recalls Gray, “I met amazing people, doing incredible agricultu...
