| We share One Earth and are all related. Indigenous thinking is for everyone. All people are indigenous to the Earth. Artist, author and activist Charleen Touchette shows how anyone can shift to indigenous thinking to help ensure a sustainable future for everyone. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charleen Touchette
Charleen Touchette is Quebecois, Acadian and Metis of mixed blood French and Canadian First Nation ancestry and grew up bilingual in French and English. An artist, author, activist and mother of four, she lives in the mountains in Santa Fe, where she is the New Mexico Coordinator of Martin Luther King III’s Realizing the Dream Initiative. Charleen has authored the award-winning, critically-acclaimed and banned book, It Stops with Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl, and NDN Art: Contemporary Native American Art. Read more by Charleen at her One Earth Blog and in various sections of EcoHearth.
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Messages from the Earth
When I was a girl, soon after the fall harvest I began making holiday gifts for my family, friends and teachers. Using whatever handwork or cooking skills I learned that year, I would knit, sew, embroider, bake, paint or sculpt homemade presents. As a young mom, the presents were jars of preserves, bottles of wine or dried herbs and sachets made from the gifts the Earth gives throughout the seasons. One year, I sewed placemats and napkins out of cloth remnants for each family member, and the children made punched tin napkin rings to go along. The joy we felt giving these gifts was deepened by the many hours we spent making them. 
Watch spiders weave a web, bees create a hive and beavers build a dam. Earth’s creatures thrive when occupied with productive work and interaction with materials from the Earth.
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe... - Black Elk
In Oregon in the 1980s, when our second son Sage was an infant in his cradleboard, our family hosted an Inipi Lodge for the Portland Indian Community where purification ceremonies were led by Lakota Medicine People. I participated several times a week, which brought me lots of dreams and visions. But one of these visions was special. So I decided to immortalize it. 
The Earth is always sending messages. All we have to do is to look and listen to understand what she says. The most important message is that love is the intelligence connecting all life. Light energy vibrates throughout the universe. It is a tangible reality experienced by mystics and seers, and described by quantum physicists. It is seen in all systems from the microcosm of subatomic particles to the macrocosm of planetary systems and galaxies. Supporting Sponsors
