Indigenous Permaculture Convergence

Join us for the first Indigenous Permaculture Convergence. Learn about indigenous permaculture principles and practice. Network with other indigenous people, permaculturists, and community activists. Connect with ongoing and planned indigenous permaculture classes, projects, and events. Attend sessions on indigenous permaculture, traditional ecological knowledge, land struggles, decolonization, and eco-cultural restoration.

Confirmed and invited participants include (this list is incomplete and continues to change as we hear back from people):

• Denver Indian Center
• Kenny Frost, Southern Ute
• Wind River Alliance
• Wind River Farms
• Ava Hamilton, Northern Arapaho
• Guillermo Vasquez, Indigenous Permaculture (San Francisco)
• Big Mountain Permaculture Project
• Native Seeds/SEARCH
• Native American Fish & Wildlife Society
• Andrew Goodheart Brown
• David Bartecchi, Village Earth
• Brock Dolman, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
• Tiyospaye Winyan Maka (“Women of the Earth Community”)
• TREATY Total Immersion School and Lakotah Food Project
• Oneida Nation Agricultural Project
• College of the Menominee Nation, Sustainable Development Program
• Winona LaDuke, Honor The Earth
• American Indian Science and Engineering Society, CUDenver & Ft. Lewis
• Mvskoke Food Sovereignty Initiative
• Dr. Greg Cajete, UNM
• The Loop Farm, AZ
• and more

Cost: $250 by July 31, 2010. $300 August 1, 2010. Cost includes meals and lodging. Limited scholarships and worktrade opportunities available.