TEDxRedding: Caleen Sisk & Marc Dadigan - Indigenous Knowledge

Caleen Sisk is the Spiritual Leader and Tribal Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, who practice their traditional culture and ceremonies in their territory along the McCloud River watershed in Northern California.
Since assuming leadership responsibilities in 2000, Caleen has focused on maintaining the cultural and religious traditions of the Tribe as well as advocating for California salmon restoration, the Human Right to Water, and the protection of indigenous sacred sites. She is also currently leading her Tribe's efforts to work with Maori and federal fish biologists to return Chinook salmon to the McCloud River.
Caleen is also a leading voice in raising awareness of the poor human rights conditions suffered by federally unrecognized tribes and unrepresented indigenous peoples around the world. She is a regular speaker at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York where she has campaigned for the U.N. to study the plight of federally unrecognized tribes in the United States. She is also the Spiritual and Environmental Commissioner for ENLACE Continental, an international network of indigenous women. Strongly rooted in her spirituality and her family, Caleen cares deeply for her Winnemem people and for oppressed people around the world.
Caleen is interviewed by Marc Dadigan, a freelance writer and photographer who has worked the last 15 months as an immersion journalist at the Winnemem Wintu's village of Tuiimyali. He's also currently working on a book project about the Winnemem Wintu's spiritually guided struggle to survive for Foundry Media in New York.
For more, see: www.winnememwintu.us/ and www.marcdadigan.com/
Dancing Salmon Home film excerpt, used with permission of Will DooLittle: Dancingsalmonhome.com
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[@jerricho11]

10's of thousands of years of history and not even 1% is taught in American History classes in US public schools. Native American history needs to be taught in public schools as American history. THEY should be the focus of our history not Europe. I say this as a 100% white American. Quit white washing history. Indigenous history is extensive, important and undervalued. Their contribution and knowledge needs to be recognized.

[@jarvila2]

Agree 100%

[@nellyxlopez]

PREACH

[@tangihorofitzgerald915]

For Maori, the Miracle of Life begins when a newborn baby utters its firstThanksgiving sound. He Honore he Kororia ki te Matua te Tama me te Wairua Tapu Ake Ake Ake Amine.

[@clau83938]

I loved her mannerisms.

[@lgndnhswnmnd]

Thanks for the post

[@musss6540]

Wow, This makes me question. My own Indigenous background.

[@toughmamakiera]

great knowledge.

[@davidjones-wy3ln]

loooove

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

😊

[@JohnnyJazzFreak]

Shame the audio is so bad.

[@priscillawagner8520]

🌼❤️

[@The907g]

I’m the 444th like on this video

[@yeshuahebrews7999]

Pale face is the problem

[@cppbandit]

I love the fact that they have kept the salmon genetics alive, that's smart of the hatchery. I would hate to see what the taxpayers bill would have been after this costume ceremony though. Just guessing it was at least half a mill, maybe more. Had they been spending their own earnings, great, but that was my earnings being spent, it's hard for me to "feel it" like they were.

[@THISDICFOO]

If only you heart and mind were as big as your ego.

[@trentedan]

The money used by tribal governments is not pulled from the federal tax reserve. Their funding comes from the interest that accumulates on the funds and lands held “in trust” by the US government. Unfortunately, like you, most Americans are unaware of the financial realities of the rightful keepers of the land they illegally occupy.

[@toughmamakiera]

great knowledge.

[@kathyharrington546]

And. She is darn beautiful 😘 as she has a lot of knowledge as well she is great IAM with you Colleen