A Talk by Taiaiake Alfred: Research as Indigenous Resurgence

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RESEARCH AS RESURGENCE Taiaiake's challenge is for all of us wherever we live. The 'land' is that right beneath our feet, wherever we are as the foundation of the biosphere, earth, water, air & life. The way is our alignment with nature, the forces of life. 3-dimensional Polyculture Orchards are the foundation of the biosphere on earth whether in country or city. Humans as primates have an important role in stewardship of the tree but we have lots of allies among every species. POLYCULTURE-ORCHARDS The tree is the foundation of life on earth. The height of trees is directly correlated to earth's distance from the sun. Indigenous Polyculture Orchards photosynthesize 92 - 98% of solar energy converted into abundant food, materials, energy & water cycle & produce 100 times (10,000%) more resources than 2-D 'agriculture' (L 'ager' = 'field'). Solar photosynthesis creates cold spots on the continent, which draw warm-moist ocean winds inland. 60% of water transfer between ocean & continent is through condensation of warm-moist ocean winds upon trillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surfaces in each 10,000 square km region. Polyculture roots descend 10s of metres into the earth's substrate to pump water, mine minerals & create extensive nutrient colonies. Agriculture roots descend only short centimetres leaving the earth hard-packed & barren. Agriculture reflection of solar energy pushes winds from continent towards the sea. Destruction of indigenous longtime polyculture for agriculture has been humanity's greatest mistake & source of poverty & insouciance. sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/design/1-indigenous-welcome-orchard-food-production-efficiencies DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? 'Indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') SYLVALIZATION (L 'sylva' = 'tree') worldwide on every continent & island is based in both the Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (Longhouse/apartment, Pueblo/townhouse & Kanata/village) & our cultivation of multiple levels of life. All humans are originally indigenous who over the past 7000 years of violent invasion & colonization, since the fall of indigenous Babylon, once abused by institutional colonizers over long periods of time, became abusers. All indigenous humanity are originally Haudenosaunee 'Onkwehonwe' aka Algonquian 'Anishinabe' aka 'real-people'. Real people find our resource within our relationships, a culture of interdisciplinary holistic cultural interactions & the research which starts in the complexity of 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). 'Do-we-know-who-we-are-?' is an online neighbourhood-based Human-Resource-Catalogue, Resource-Mapping & accounting for contributions & transactions as a Community-Investment-&-Exchange-System. sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are

[@luqmantemitayoonikosi7003]

I knew little about people of the First Nations in Canada. I am beginning to learn more. I think this is the reason why Prof. Lorna Williams, presentation at University of Sussex on the 11th of April will be fundamental and monumental for the conference on Canadian's First Nations, whose way of lives were significantly disrupted just like many of First Nation or People in the Commonwealth countries were. For me, it is ever more urgent that the First Nations or Peoples within the Commonwealth should come together to urgently discuss 'reparation justice', as the presenter in the video rightly said, in few years time, this culture may all together disappear. As a matter of fact many, are already extincted . The epistemicide, linguicide and cultural genocide that the First Nation or People of the former British Empire are experiencing is the direct consequences of the Western colonization especially Britain, Spain, France, Belgium, German etc

[@MrAllen89]

This lecture was very hard to understand. Even as a "Indigenous" man whose father was forced into residential school, I understand that those accountable are dead or dying, even the religion or ideology they followed is losing ground. Yet we feel entitled to the money(time/effort) of the innocent threw government coercion(law, force, and point of a gun) for material gain without realizing the immorality of it. If we continue to employ the power of government to oppress all peoples, than we are no better than those who enabled the government of the past to nearly destroy us!