Dear Mr. Storm,
I am writing you to thank you for teaching me the story of Jumping Mouse. It has been the template for my life and has guided me thru hard and scary times and has allowed me to reach out and try to heal great beings that it would have been so easy to hate and fear.
My "sacred mountains" and "medicine lake" are a vision given to me by the creator, by our wounded mother, to bring healing to the people on a scale that humbles me to contemplate.
But, I know that, I, a wet and shaking mouse, can be a great being, if I only allow myself to trust and be brave, to crouch as low as I can, and to jump as high as I can.
This vision centers around the rebirth of the tribes. Hunting in old ways, using new tools. I too am a breed. My Aniyunwiya Great Grandmother's father was forced to give up his native ways by accepting the deed to 160 acres of land as part of the Dawes Act and turning his back on the common way of living that his people had successfully used for generations. And, my English blood goes back to 13 signers of the Magna Carta that forced the King to submit to a rule of law -- a King to whom I am also related.
We desperately need to hunt again as a people. Only now we hunt money and not deer, or Bison. But the opportunity of this time is that the new dominant power in the world is the corporation, no longer the Nation State. 2007 was the first year in human history that of the 100 largest economies in the world, the majority are corporations not governments. The Kings have returned in Corporate form. We must return to the pre-columbian democratic principals born of this land that inspired the American Revolution and apply them to business.
I see a New Ism being born out of the ashes of Capitalism. Deeply informed by indigenous wisdom and the concept of sacred capital where we hunt money as a people, with the help of wise and noble chiefs, and where the benefits are shared among those who work to make them happen.
Here is why I am writing you. I believe that Artists can be Providers and Protectors for a people, and not just teachers. I received my Master's Degree in Arts Management from the Yale School of Drama and wrote my thesis on harnessing the economic engine of popular media to drive the empowerment of community.
I see the return of matriarchal wisdom. I see the guardians of the Sacred Capital taking the form of a Grandmother's Council. We are working with Grandmother Agnes, and Grandmother Rita from the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and see the harvest of our efforts helping to fund the work they are doing for our Mother Earth.
I believe the work you have done could be the basis of a Bison Jump. A common hunt to not only provide you and your family with the sustenance you need to survive and thrive, but to provide the basis of the creation of an artistic clan that can show to the world what abundance, joy, prosperity, and nurturing is possible using ancient wisdom.
Peace,
Alisgia Uwohali
I am writing you to thank you for teaching me the story of Jumping Mouse. It has been the template for my life and has guided me thru hard and scary times and has allowed me to reach out and try to heal great beings that it would have been so easy to hate and fear.
My "sacred mountains" and "medicine lake" are a vision given to me by the creator, by our wounded mother, to bring healing to the people on a scale that humbles me to contemplate.
But, I know that, I, a wet and shaking mouse, can be a great being, if I only allow myself to trust and be brave, to crouch as low as I can, and to jump as high as I can.
This vision centers around the rebirth of the tribes. Hunting in old ways, using new tools. I too am a breed. My Aniyunwiya Great Grandmother's father was forced to give up his native ways by accepting the deed to 160 acres of land as part of the Dawes Act and turning his back on the common way of living that his people had successfully used for generations. And, my English blood goes back to 13 signers of the Magna Carta that forced the King to submit to a rule of law -- a King to whom I am also related.
We desperately need to hunt again as a people. Only now we hunt money and not deer, or Bison. But the opportunity of this time is that the new dominant power in the world is the corporation, no longer the Nation State. 2007 was the first year in human history that of the 100 largest economies in the world, the majority are corporations not governments. The Kings have returned in Corporate form. We must return to the pre-columbian democratic principals born of this land that inspired the American Revolution and apply them to business.
I see a New Ism being born out of the ashes of Capitalism. Deeply informed by indigenous wisdom and the concept of sacred capital where we hunt money as a people, with the help of wise and noble chiefs, and where the benefits are shared among those who work to make them happen.
Here is why I am writing you. I believe that Artists can be Providers and Protectors for a people, and not just teachers. I received my Master's Degree in Arts Management from the Yale School of Drama and wrote my thesis on harnessing the economic engine of popular media to drive the empowerment of community.
I see the return of matriarchal wisdom. I see the guardians of the Sacred Capital taking the form of a Grandmother's Council. We are working with Grandmother Agnes, and Grandmother Rita from the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers and see the harvest of our efforts helping to fund the work they are doing for our Mother Earth.
I believe the work you have done could be the basis of a Bison Jump. A common hunt to not only provide you and your family with the sustenance you need to survive and thrive, but to provide the basis of the creation of an artistic clan that can show to the world what abundance, joy, prosperity, and nurturing is possible using ancient wisdom.
Peace,
Alisgia Uwohali
Michael Rogers
530-587-5160
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