Please help The Gathering the Stories project

Please help The Gathering the Stories project

www.gatheringthestories.blogspot.com/

We are very happy to be assiting in the production of this project by Si Matta native american film maker and good friend of mine.

I am posting this because I am in full support of this project and I really want to ask the members of this tribe to aid in giving whatever you can, even a dollar to getting this project up and going. This is how the begining of a gift economy starts!

We are funding this project through the site Kickstarter... you can find the link to that through this link below.
www.gatheringthestories.blogspot.com/p...ml



A clip of the documentry can be seen here...
www.gatheringthestories.blogspot.com/p...ml

• Here is a message from Si about the project...

"Hello and may I take this opportunity to welcome you to Gathering the Stories: Life in the Columbia River Gorge. I am honored to meet you all!

Gathering the Stories is a multi dimensional project that focuses on one central point: Place, and our relationships to land. I am covering many perspectives because I come from many perspectives (check my Bio), but the one central focus is Place.



The WATLALA (Cascade Indians) are my tribe of origin (I am an enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe) on my Mother's side. Our old village site is now replaced by Bonneville Locks & Dam in the Columbia River Gorge. The intent of this project is to archive family relationships and stories of this place. However, I am also searching for lost spiritual traditions and ways of communicating with the land. I plan on archiving the lost tradition of Our Vision Quest and the use of Our Sacred Mountain: Wind Mountain. I hope to someday return this Sacred Mountain back to its' Peoples. First I want to share our stories!

I have always felt that this work (writer/videographer/ archivist/ storyteller) was my calling. However, I have always thought of it as something that I would do in the future after I went to school and got grant money to work on projects. One day it hit me that people are dying and passing on. With each passing goes myriads of stories and anecdotes now unheard to current and future generations. A sense of urgency to begin archiving is apparent and vital to preserve oral traditions."

• From LLB~

*One of the things that the center for bioregional animism is trying to accomplish is the promotion and development of projects like Si's we are hoping to work on many projects like this in the future so that we can work together to protect the land and its peoples and work in harmony with the spirit of place. We hope to do this through promoting bioregional projects of any kind, and helping both new and traditional animist peoples in what ever way possible. Please give what you can in support of this project.

Visual animal acoustics

http://aguasonic.com/Avian/
http://www.youtube.com/aguasonic
This site is amazing!
the art of other than human persons...
wow...
And here are auqua sonic orcas!
http://www.youtube.com/aguasonic#p/u/11/qz4BV17mN8M

A bioregional animist film by Rogerio

"Many mistakes I have made... still do. But I realize now that breathing is a gift that can be shared, nurtured and grown. Enjoying to do so, means I still have the strength to give something back to Earth before I surrender my body to her as final offering."
-Rogerio

It is my honor to present this art and message.......

The Bioregional Animist Art Work of Martin Bridge

Martin Bridge is a modern animist artist and teacher living in Massachusetts.
His work strives to celebrate the magic and spirit of the life place.
I am honored to show some of his art work here.
please see his full gallery as well as his web page and workshops.
father hood
ceremonial space
spider clan fetish

http://martin.ritualarts.org/

the guardian mask

Bioregional animism in five minutes

earth regenerator

by Desert Spider

i am indian tobacco. jupiter's rod. candlestick. mullein.
i grow where earth has been burned.
i grow in vacant parking lots.
i grow in places you'd least expect it.
they poison me with chemicals.
they misunderstand me.

for one year i am a rosette.
and then my masculine stalk grows tall. i grow taller than you, if you allow me to.
i am good for your lungs.
when your air becomes too polluted, you will look for me.
you will feel bad that you have poisoned me.
i will be in those places you abandoned or left as forgotten.
my roots help the earth to regenerate.

i don't ask for much.
you do.
and when you come to me again
afraid, helpless and wondering...what the hell do i do
i will stand with you.
i will remind you that you too can grow new roots
in unexpected and forgotten places.
i will remind you that you too can be a jupiter rod, a candlestick growing tall

i'll give you my leaves and i'll listen to you cry as you breathe and drink them again.
i will help your lungs to grieve in fall so that you can give birth to something new in spring.

Bioregional animist : Desert spider

bioregional animist expression By Desert spider New mexico.
found a crown of bird feathers.
the birds have been circling.
caterpillars have been dropping on my front porch.
this is an ode to the new mexico birds
may they be well fed this fall
may they keep circling and inspiring...

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