What Can Activists Learn from Native Manhattan?

“Manahatta” is a native Lenape word that means “Island of Many Hills.” The
native people of this place also referred to this place as “Welikia,”
which translates as “my good home.” Researchers have used modern
technology to analyze historic documents and piece together an ‘ecological
map’ of our home prior to contact with Europeans. The results show an
astonishing level of biodiversity – more than can be found in the Amazon
rainforest and Yellowstone park, for example. Humans lived within this
landscape consistently and sustainably for millennia, not as passive
inhabitants of a wilderness, but as active ‘landscape managers’ who used
fire and horticulture to significantly alter their environment in a
sustainable way. How can environmental and social activists learn from the
past and use this new knowledge to inform our work to build a brighter
future?

Come join us for our monthly open meeting as we use the knowledge of the
past to encourage the future resistance.

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For a preview: http://welikia.org/download/presentations/