A podcast where we will explore how Indigenous economies are functioning today, through interviews, storytelling and dialogue among different peoples from diverse spaces ranging from tribal leaders to community members, elders, food producers, entrepreneurs, tribal authorities, grant makers, organizers, and folks in finance. We will primarily be looking at Turtle Island and Abya Yala, aka from the Arctic down to Patagonia.
IndigEconomies
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A podcast where we will explore how Indigenous economies are functioning today, through interviews, storytelling and dialogue among different peoples from diverse spaces ranging from tribal leaders to community members, elders, food producers, entrepreneurs, tribal authorities, grant makers, organizers, and folks in finance. We will primarily be looking at Turtle Island and Abya Yala, aka from the Arctic down to Patagonia.
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September 1, 2022
Rematriating Finance: Native Women Lead, the 5 Rs of Rematriation and Growing Healthy Financial Waterways
<p>In this episode we are joined with Native Women Lead co-directors and co-founders Alicia Ortega and Jaime Gloshay (Navajo, White Mountain Apache and Kiowa based in Tewa territory, New Mexico), who are two of eight co-founders of Native Women Lead, based in Tewa Territory, also known as Albuquerque, New Mexico. </p> <p>Native Women Lead, co-founded by 8 Indigenous women in 2017 (with everything done in co-creation and shared leadership) has emerged with an incredibly visionary model for restorative finance rooted in traditional values moving beyond the norms of financial violence with their own underwriting criteria as an antithesis to the 5 cs of credit. When reviewing a loan application they apply these five Rs: Is the business <strong>relational</strong>? Are they <strong>rooted</strong> in Indigenous values and community needs? Is the business <strong>restorative</strong>-- does it aim to support their employees so that they can close their own racial wealth gaps? Is there 7th generation impact to Indigenous families, communities and economies from their business--is it <strong>regenerative</strong>? And is it <strong>revolutionary</strong>? Are they game-changing, are they solving a problem?</p> <p>What is different about Native Women Lead is they believe Indigenous women and trust them from the get go, which is vastly different than the institutional racism within financial institutions that expects people to prove their trustworthiness through meeting the 5 cs of credit that many Native women borrowers are unable to meet. Their approach is, "lets do this together, and lets show the systems that we are phenomenal and we are investable."</p> <p>NWE is focused on growing a healthy waterway that provides a broad circle for support for Native women stepping into their power as entrepreneurs, leaders, and ultimately the backbone of their communities. They are emerging as entrepreneurs and leaders, weaving community, culture and resources together to empower one another to manifest change.</p>
June 29, 2022
Indigenous women entrepreneurship and traditional knowledge with Addie Lucero (Taos Pueblo/Yaqui)
<p>In this episode we interview Addie Lucero (Taos Pueblo/Yaqui)-- owner and operator of Dancing Butterfly Naturals-- dedicated to making skin and hair care products and medicines with locally sourced ingredients from the Taos Pueblo Mountains and northern New Mexico. We talk about the balance between maintaining traditional knowledge while engaged in the modern dollar driven economy, we talk about barter and connection to place, we learn about Indigenous women focused financing and more.</p>
May 4, 2022
Seeds Are Our True Sovereignty, an interview with Angela Ferguson (Onondaga Eel Clan)
<p>We interview Angela Ferguson, a fiercely dedicated seed saver, corn grower and food sovereignty practitioner and advocate who continues to maintain and revitalize Indigenous trade networks. She is the supervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm, a working farm that provides traditional foods for families throughout the Onondaga Nation. It serves as a place where cultural learning around food and farming are practiced.</p> <p>Throughout the interview, Angela shells bean seeds, and with seeds clicking and popping in background, she tells us about food as currency, alternative trade networks, pre-monetary currency, practices of reciprocity that are being revitalized and food as the common thread.</p> <p>Angela notes how a lot of the work at the farm is about integrating people with the foods and sacred knowledge that comes from elders and the connection that pulls it all together. I think this is part of the definition of sovereignty:</p> <p>Can we feed ourselves?</p> <p>Can we still perform our ceremonies?</p> <p>Can we still speak the language?</p> <p>Are we still willing to learn and pass on that oral tradition?</p> <p>We have begun using food as currency. We have eliminated using the US dollar as a form of value placed on our goods and resuscitated the thought process getting back to old trade routes using food as value.</p> <p>"A lot of places in my food travels had a lot of people calling their seed places a seed bank, and I thought, well, banks are full of promissory notes. That’s what a dollar bill is— an IOU. I don’t feel that our seeds are an IOU, they are something so sacred that they need to be honored. I did not like the word ‘bank’. When you give things, you give them unconditionally, so you don’t expect anything back. The seeds do that for us, the food does that for us."</p> <p>"There were people who starved to death on the Trail of Tears but they didn’t eat the food that was in their pocket because they knew they had to keep those seeds going for the next generations to come.<strong> </strong>That is very intense thinking when it comes to food and I think people have gotten so far away from that mindset, that if they can reconnect again -- it is what will eliminate the value of a dollar. <strong>If someone would hand me a jar of seeds or $20, for me the $20 has no value but the seeds can feed a generation.</strong> They can support a lot more than those $20 could."</p> <p><br></p> <p>(Intro and outro music by Polvora and Barcelona Afrobeat)</p>
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