TEDxTC - Winona LaDuke - Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life

[@masilomabeta]

Excellent consistent thinker cultural and spiritual leader of her people and the world in the spirit world. Aformer classmate andsister at Harvard Universty and a comrade in our fight against the oppression of apartheid.

[@laurabartoletti6412]

I totally respect Winona, her wisdom and her reverence for Mother Earth. She speaks truth to power, she inspires , she leads. 🦅

[@Tonkahontas]

This is so important today even more than 10 years ago. This woman has forseen so much. It is on us to fight for our natural and given foods. If we won't care about what we eat we definitely don't care for ourselves either, no matter how many gym visits, walks in nature and doctor's appointments we take. Then if not for ourselves, let's do it for our children. Peace and love to all!

[@debrapaulino918]

I've known since 1973. It's a war with dark forces. Huge discussion. We are on our way out. I want to be hopeful that our landfills have been repurposed for whoever walks earth in 5000 yrs.

[@kjames1414]

I've lived in Hawai'i nei for 20 years. I appreciate that our sisters and brother's allow me to live here in their land.

[@LynnOpportunity]

I am refreshed and encouraged by her. I hope her knowledge and message spreads like ripples in still water. We all need to hear this and to remember it in our actions. Thank you Winona. You bless us with your knowledge and spirit.

[@californiai2845]

WINONA, WE ALL YOUR RELATIVES LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH. TRUE FROM THE HEART AND SPIRIT.

[@fionaokeefe1906]

Her relatives were European😏

[@PatriciaGray-mm2yi]

What a pleasure to hear such wisdom. May we learn.

[@rachelmcmurray1853]

This is one of the most inspiring TEDTalks I have ever witnessed. I am thankful for all of our elders stepping up to this occasion. Our generation is blessed by the wisdom that is showing itself from indigenous communities.

[@marymarti5841]

Congratulations Winona, you do a good job for the humanity and the self-esteem of Natives ! Jack Weatherford, in his book INDIANS GIVERS describes how the Natives they had mastered genetics without having to go to university and become scientists. It helps to be directly linked with the Creator

[@shaunbrowne3963]

Mary Marti i

[@debrapaulino918]

Yes

[@marloef11]

THAT is so powerful and so eloquent.what a beautiful orator. My very favorite Ted talk.. thank you!!! Some history, some story telling, food for thought and thought for the future.

[@thommyers3080]

Winona always inspiring and amazing to hear her speak the truth of what has happened, what is happening and what will happen. Miigwich

[@ДафиПарталска]

Ah, Winona, how right you are! Wherever we are, everywhere in the world we must value our own food! And the one that carries the old spirit and traditions, and not to have taken the breath of new technologies ... Thanks, Winona for the shared story! It was exciting and touching!

[@rthawknatanabah1759]

Beautiful... can't argue with true HISTORY.... peace..... silent prayer

[@Itwasntalieitwastrueinmymind]

Admire this lady. Would love to see her speak in person one day. ❤️

[@LavenderDebs]

I "like" this. I am encouraged and poke my seed into my suburban lot, the place my creator led me to (though not as dramatically as the prophets led the people of the rice). For me, food is only one element of life but it is a gift. I desire to live a life that honors YHVH and the gift of food (and labor) he has gifted me with. A sacrifice of thanksgiving that is not genetically engineered. Thank you for this last 16 minutes of passion and inspiration.

[@debrapaulino918]

All of the elements of life are however, found therein. Think about it.

[@millicentcummings]

Bless you and yours Winona...Mahalo. Big Aloha from Moku O Keawe

[@susanpete5270]

You are an inspiration. Thank you for your service to all but especially for your native peoples.

[@janetwalmsley-heron]

This makes sense and it was most interesting to listen to. I liked her speech and admire her knowledge

[@ACrazyKat]

She is a wonderful activist warwoman ... decades long ...

[@showmevoodoo]

This is so great to listen to, thank you for sharing this message.

[@gaybyingtonhillpsynp5068]

"Food comes from our relatives!" She speaks truth.

[@isicat880]

I love how she explains everything. Its all very connected to spirit and heart, what seems to be missing these days

[@debrapaulino918]

We see the fruit in the breaking down of all systems. Man cannot replicate. It wasn't meant to. The wisdom of Genesis 1:1 is more profound than ever: "In the beginning God created ..."

[@swiftables]

I really enjoyed and appreciated all you depicted in your Ted Talk. Your personal education and leadership in the Environmental and Indigenous movement(s). Your old friend, -Jonathan (from MIT)

[@BrunoCoutant]

Excellent, very well articulated and documented. Great stuff, thank you Winona for speaking out. With Love and Light.

[@MrMahpiyaMaza]

ideas of food sovereignty at it's finest.

[@maluzgf1]

Genuinely thankful to hear this talk.

[@theresakurth6916]

I am filled with not only hope from her words, but much fear for the future. I worry far too much about seeds these days, and what it means for us.

[@gagewilson3717]

A fascinating presentation. I watched this video for my Native American studies class. I was required to write three questions I would like to ask the speaker. Here are the three questions I thought of... 1. Agro-biodiversity is rapidly dissipating. This is what lead to Ireland's Potato Famine, right? 2. Does your tribe no longer produce its own food? 3. I would like to try this other corn. Why are these other corns so rare? Are they faulty in some ways?

[@debrapaulino918]

Manmade fertilizers and or isolated elements into soil began in early to mid 19th century both in Europe and the U.S. Old time traditional farming methods with moon and planets and zodiac was left. That no doubt began prior to modern amendments to soil. The former being viewed as witchcraft/folklore. Interesting isn't it? As quality of soil became poor due to the loss of ancient practices, a need arose for a solution which isn't a solution at all. I think you'd be interested in a book by Rudolf Steiner called Agriculture; 1926. His 8 lectures to Polish farmers in Selesia. It's not easy reading due to its spiritual depth. I've read it twice and could again. Blessings.

[@debrapaulino918]

Your #2 question. Her Rez is located in northern MN which has short warm season. We take for granted what is shipped. In former times they foraged and dried meat in addition to tree tapping harvest and rice. Another book called WEEDS another good choice. Idr author but if you look it up like that on Amazon you will get it. It's about the role of weeds for soil restoration.

[@Lindaweisser]

~^* A Superb Documentary! A toast to Ms. LaDuke *^~

[@IwishIownedMonos]

I ashamed what my people have done to your people, all through history, and it's still happening. I am so sorry and support what you are doing. We need to learn from you & stand up for good in the same way that you do. Stay strong and stay healthy

[@fionaokeefe1906]

Why she’s one of your people no need to feel bad dude!

[@debrapaulino918]

Quite honestly it happened to all of us. Those who came from Europe had been dumbed down for a millennia and reaped the natural consequences. They left to survive and brought the dumbed down ways. They are not to be blamed either. Most of them could not read or write even into the early 20th century. It wasn't considered important. We are all victims of "it." If we're going to make it as a human race we have to stop blaming. I hate what happened too, but it's counterproductive to the present. We haven't figured the Pyramid out. That will be us in 5000+ yrs for whoever is left.

[@khadijahgumah8417]

12:08 - 12:14 you BLEW me away lady! Talk about it!!

[@kevinrasmussen5887]

Very moving speech, I am proud to be her relative :)

[@stephenarmiger8343]

Thank you for this. Very informative!

[@rgrrgrsxndngr1904]

Time to make an special force of security operatives, policy specialists, business professionals, research scholars, covert investigators, and bio-ecologists of Indigenous people to battle these agriculture imperialists/deprivers.

[@debrapaulino918]

Do they eat Coco Puffs?! They know us ...

[@kaleipineki]

This is a really awesome talk, but I just wanted to offer one correction to the Hawaiian story shared. Our elder brother, the kalo (taro), who was indeed stillborn, is named Hāloanakalaukapalili. The second brother, a kane (man), is named Hāloa.

[@debrapaulino918]

It's very interesting. I see the natural laws of science in this portrayed as personifications.

[@bozidarnikcevich6403]

That was so great. Thank you for your good works.

[@MHsearchingTruth]

very touched by this, a lot of great incite to ponder on

[@1gravityworks]

Really great presentation and important information. Thank you!

[@growingtreecreations2900]

Beautiful work you are doing. Excellent talk.

[@katyrankin-tanguay1148]

Kitci Mikwetc for these beautiful teachings. From Abitibiwinni Nation, Québec :)

[@eloisebush4595]

Thank you Winona for all you do.Wild is my staple food.I eat it at least 3 times a week.I never eat GMO corn.poisen.

[@eloisebush4595]

I meant wild rice.the best there is.

[@consciouscoma85]

i think it would be a great idea to invest in vertical farming. in huge warehouses.

[@spookyaliens6286]

SHE IS MY FAVORITE

[@ACrazyKat]

You need to bring Winona back again

[@ojibwaywmn]

Amazing talk.

[@staceymcr13]

outstanding talk. ' ...but perhaps the more prominent issue that we are facing is in fact the extinction of species of foods in themselves over the past hundred years you've have seen a 75% decline in agro-biodiversity. That is to say the species of seed, vegetables, common things that exited a hundred years ago, don't exist today.'

[@pvalentine54]

+Stacey Bluer I thought she addressed that -- it is the monsanto style of promotion to make money I think she is addressing - gmo's are bad.

[@paulsteinph.d.8869]

Empowering ancestral healing brilliance that cannot ever be eliminated by unconscionable democidal eugenetics of "injected" biodiversity with AI...!!! Thank you Winona...!!

[@GinaBearfighterS8W]

beautifully spoken in wisdom

[@markfullarton9]

Thank you, wise sister.

[@tptteachplaytravel6196]

Gunalchéesh, Winona!

[@chelseashurmantine8153]

Wow 10 years ago.

[@61web]

I think she is wrong about the Māori and the potato though......according to every piece of evidence I can find on here, Captain Cook brought the first potatoes to New Zealand, prior to that the Māori ate kumara, which are like yams or sweet potato

[@terria.mccurdy9190]

colonlyzd text bks & resourcs tell colonlyzd lies... terri a.

[@dweebteambuilderjones7627]

@Indrid Cold Newer data has cast doubts on pre-Columbian chickens actually being pre-Columbus based on genetic & radiocarbon evidence. Potatoes were already present in New Zealand when Captain Cook arrived there in 1773, having been introduced there about four years earlier, but four years is not very statistically significant.

[@moonolyth]

Without even understanding the language you are speaking one can see the depth and iron in your gestures the determination in the eyes and heart.... 90% of the people I am in contact with many engineers ... educated think genetic hording of our food is hog wash and a fantasy. I do love them But, I think we have fallen to a depth we can no longer ignore but cannot come back from. It seems to me the people we grow now surpass my simple intelligence, but cannot Grow the corn (or the like) without having some one else do the physical act for them. WE are now like gods and feel detached, but are still rooted to the mother. Our society has the heart of a train a machine and it has its own genetic code of little empathy... far from a natural one and we are born of this mutated Disney Fantasy ! .... So sorry, If anything your determination gives me a little light in the distance where there is so much darkness. Thank you, my prayers go out to you and our survival. WE have lost our way.

[@sophster123]

Thank you!!!!

[@notavideographer]

That potato story is AWESOME!

[@shaneduffy8463]

shut it

[@brycetomecek5065]

Fantastic TED Talk.

[@RositaLaMaguita]

Beautiful 🤍 Much Taino love🤍

[@eloisebush4595]

Never give up the struggle.

[@lastnamefirst5521]

Staying at her house working for Honor the Earth now. It's sick she's on a tedtalk

[@lastnamefirst5521]

I stayed at her house in Ponsford Minnesota working for her organization. She's a wonderful leader.

[@annikajohnson2100]

Her fathers line about if I you can’t grow corn I don’t want to hear your philosophy!!! Powerful conclusion

[@genevraprothero135]

She is a hero.

[@EQOAnostalgia]

she's literally a commie...

[@ronniekassis6089]

Was an owner meeting her her in my homelands on our youkuts land at FCC fresno city committee collage

[@Lifemapping]

There was no one trip over to the Americas - there were a number of potatoes that were brought over, some survived some didn't. Maori aren't one people and different tribes brought over different things. The common potato was brought over, and where did he get the potato from? All potato originally came from the Americas. Unknown to white history in the main, is there was a great trading route in and around the pacific.

[@riiko92]

🌈🔥

[@artstrology]

That one there is a teacher. And people should listen and repeat the words.

[@vegaldh1954]

Love winona

[@patrickmosley2743]

Big gang firewoodluv ok luv

[@bluesparrow251]

Dam that was good.

[@Goochman40]

Wait a minute...I always thought rice came from Vietnam, Asian countries and such (not certain what such is?) Okay just have to wrap my head around my ignorance as a man and watch.

[@JeshikaKazeno]

"Wild rice" is a different species from regular rice. Rice as we know it comes from Asia, but "wild rice" (which isn't actually related to Asian rice) comes from the Great Lakes in North America. When English speakers ate the grain that grew in the lakes, they called it "wild rice" because it was wild and it cooked up a lot like rice. Thus the confusion. ^.^

[@FineHawaiianArt]

EPIC!!

[@keithdixon2054]

Direct Ancestor

[@hazielgarcia5700]

The only red talk that matters

[@sashaspano588]

watching this as california continues to burn and the pacific northwest floods and sustains wind damage in coastal areas.

[@candyapu3]

anyone else here studying for the ENVS345 final?

[@phyllisgene4165]

Wow it made sense.

[@TheSuburbanBase]

Nice video.

[@KaohiWaianae]

Winona should be questioned on her views on depleted uranium on Indian land. DU cannot be hand in hand, it's one or the other. From our family traditional practice father slept with daughter and that is Haloa practice. Our babies of long ago are still in existence at the corner of our house lot--a place of Haloa.I still water the kalo that is planted in respect to Haloanakalaukapalili.My fathers name is Kanaka oo 'niaupio which means matured man. Property is 1845 Maunawili Rd. Oahu--we exist.

[@emil.jansson]

Moving.

[@nativeorthodoxchurchofamer8445]

withlove

[@dorengarcia4761]

I share her misgivings about GMOs, but mine are not based on quaint fables or religious views. - Its fashionable to believe that Native American religious views are superior to other religions, but they are all based on pre-rational guesses or just plain made up stories. None are based on any kind of data. - Not really a rational basis for arguing against GMOs. - Presenting data about the loss of genetic diversity is good. Showing how to grow quality food in an economically feasible way would be better... of course the audience at TED are generally not farmers.

[@eleanorcm7033]

doren garcia It's not just religion; the relatedness of everything is more of an observation, backed up of course by the relatively recent discovery that you share 50% of your DNA with a banana. You're right that GMO isn't central to the argument - the problem is all industrial agriculture.

[@anneroise8082]

+doren garcia You are kidding right? Rational basis for explaining how the world works, "data", "made up stories'" I hope this patronizing, view is really a parody. What religion is based on data?

[@TanehaHenry]

+doren garcia wow. no. our origin stories are based on data. data we have collected from centuries of observations. If you would like any factual basis for your argument, I suggest you find out what Traditional Ecological Knowledge means. We have been practicing modifying greens for a long time. You could review the genetic modifying of corn that goes back centuries. Try to move past your manifest destiny limited knowledge of our traditions and assuming we are ignorant and make up colorful stories. your are whitesplaining what you dont grasp.

[@Chimonger1]

Well spoken!

[@Chimonger1]

+doren garcia, Yes, this is a reply to an old post. But something needs said. Not trying to be mean here, just trying to turn the polluted tide. What you say, wreaks of the same colonialist, class-stratified, race-discriminating, politically blinkered, effete denial of reality, as that which committed holocausts upon Indigenous peoples worldwide, for the past many centuries; same agendas which promote limitation, fear, conflict, heavily perpetrated by a number of industrial, political and religious groups. The saddest thing, and most dangerous thing is, you have no idea. What you say, parrots content of school books still used, even today, in most grade- and high schools, and even in some colleges If your comment is indicative of what the "education" system is cranking out, we're all doomed...because people with minds clogged with the same limited, inaccurate perspective, more's the pity, unfortunately are also voters, industrial 'leaders', policy makers, and worse, 'experts'. PLEASE do more research, study, and explore more. You, and many others, are really missing out on SO much, by staying stuck in the tiny comfort-zone boxes of what you think you empirically 'know'. There's an amazing, diverse yet intricately interconnected world surrounding you;; fear not! Embrace it, and it will hug back. ALL peoples really can bring wonderful things to a common table. We really can live in a world where everybody wins....IF people like you, step outside their restrictive boxes and soak up more knowledge, broaden their awareness, and allow their hearts to open, instead of clenching in fears so chronic, most do not even recognize fear for what it is. PLEASE wake up!

[@wendibaldwin6564]

And this was 9 years ago. And we still didn’t listen. 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@txexmxiii9561]

♥️ HearT 💜

[@valiantsfelinesmccarty6678]

Just one little spot wrong on her talk the Maori of New Zealand were not the first people to land in New Zealand. However they wield great power but it has been proven that there was another race ahead of them but but very few of them exist today. They are RedHead green-eyed people who were pretty much eradicated because something happened where they would become cannibalistic basically go insane and I'm not sure what caused that but there is a fish about it they used to be a KZbin video and there was a group of people who it turns out are related to the Easter Island people and they were related to the people in Peru and then they all relate back to Persia and they come from the fall of Persia and they didn't like South America when he hit it because it was too violent family got in their boats and they came across the ocean and they got all the way to New Zealand and they went off okay we lose some long way and I think we better stop here it's about as far as we can go. They were great seafarers and everybody knows the Persians were. At one time they were the greatest nation before Greece. But when the Maori of came only 800 years ago they pretty much wiped out those races that were there already. This group related to the Persians can prove that they've been there the Maori that unfortunately are not recognized by the New Zealand government because of the power that the supposed indigenous Maori have in the government. As with all things if it has to do with greed recognition it has to do with reparations Etc

[@61web]

Of course he came via Cape Horn on his first visit, so he may have stopped off for supplies in South America :o)

[@savannahsherbourne1415]

and this was in 2012....

[@1shadowfx]

Chi miigwech

[@iamcassandrabradshaw]

Thank you for sharing, deep gratitude and support

[@iangabriellebambao4715]

SHEEEEEEEEEESH

[@andrewrodriguez102]

westside!

[@MrVideoman619]

Coms class huh?

[@freshnightsky]

We, who?

[@dorengarcia4761]

I thought that too.

[@cathymorrison4953]

🥰🧡🇨🇦

[@PeggyJame]

No more fossil fuels

[@KiRetteCouture]

That people would try to patent anyone's food!

[@cosuinofdeath]

Yeah and

[@cosuinofdeath]

Get a grip

[@cnmike1988]

Crazy woman lol stop wearing cloth oil was used in the process of making it