Climate Action: Food Sovereignty

This year’s theme for the Communities of Holy Wisdom Monastery is balance. How we balance our preparation and consumption of earth resources affects the balance throughout creation and with our own human mind/body/spirit.

Our guest speaker, Paul DeMain, will review recent events in the Indigenous community that enhance protections and production of Indigenous agricultural and treaty protected food in the quest for community self-sufficiency – and in preparation for the next Great Flood. The movement toward food sovereignty extends traditional knowledge to provide healthier food for tribal members with sustainable food production. It will be our privilege to hear from Paul DeMain, member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and life-long advocate for Indigenous people, culture and treaty rights. He is respected throughout North America for his 33 years of publishing News from Indian Country and life-long advocacy.

Speaker

Paul DeMain (Skabewis) is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and of Ojibwe descent currently residing on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation near Hayward, Wisconsin. Paul is a retired newspaper CEO, having published News from Indian Country for 33 years. A former Great Lakes event planner for the Inter-Tribal Agriculture Council, he currently is the Board of Directors Chair for Honor the Earth, an environmental advocacy organization based in Minnesota. Honor the Earth funds community tribal food self-sufficiency, seed rematriation, gardens, irrigation, artisans, musicians and dirty extractive energy project resistance and is affiliated with numerous green energy, hemp, horse and cultural based activities in the Great Lakes region.

Location

This program takes place at Holy Wisdom Monastery and online.

Cost

There is no cost charged to participants for this event.

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