Finding Our Way with Rowen White — Finding Our Way Podcast

So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way, we just have to understand what it is. And I often think about this when it comes to our abolition conversations and our justice conversations — that mushrooms are like, this is food if we ca... See more

In our Creation stories the origin of strawberries is important. Skywoman’s beautiful daughter, whom she carried in her womb from Skyworld, grew on the good green earth, loving and loved by all the other beings. But tragedy befell her when she died giving birth to her twins, Flint and Sapling. Heartbroken, Skywoman buried her beloved daughter in th

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Creation. So how can we pursue spiritual enlightenment on one hand and contribute to the destruction of the teaching place, Nungeena-tya, our mother, on the other? Who would stand by and watch their mother be bludgeoned and raped? We come from the Earth, Nungeena-tya, and she feeds us on her breast milk from the day we are born until the day we die

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There is this idea I return to all the time, talk about all the time, that comes from a quote by one of our late elders, Eddie Benton Banai. He said that to live an Anishinaabe life, to live according to our Seven Grandfather teachings, is to live a life where every footstep becomes a prayer. Isn’t that beautiful? You know how when you walk through... See more