Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 10 Jun 2021

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@IlseKohler 2/ Meanwhile, Agrarian Sharing Network 'propagation fairs' draw deeply upon a traditional form - the 'potlatch' - an indigenous, PNW, bio-cultural model of community gathering in which 'stewardship means' is deliberately interwoven into the living fabric of convivial experience.