Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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2/ 'Potlatches' were ceremonial feasts among certain Indigenous peoples of the PNW coast. They were also the main governmental institution, legislative body; and the primary, bioregional locus of diplomatic, resource management, and economic activity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch

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Quoted by@NavdanyaInt @drvandanashiva Here in the PNW US, the 'potlatch', a traditional means of truly localized, human and more-than-human community care, coherently bounded within and bonded by bio-cultural resilience, holds vital, contemporary lessons for all of us, whichever planetary ecoregion we inhabit.Quoted by@ramskelet0n @FoodForestNetwk Beautifully stated. Of course, First Nations folk not only universally assert this basic truth but, traditionally, deliberately interweave ‘stewardship means’ into the living fabric of communal culture.