As I was developing my ideas around Living System Design and the Contributionism movement, it needed to manifest as a project.

I remember sitting with my maternal grandmother, having a conversation about our family and she told me she was 1/16 Lakota Sioux. As a young woman growing up on a farm in eastern Montana she was very connected to the land. This conversation planted an awareness in me around my indigenous heritage. For me there is something about indigenous languages which communicate states of being above and beyond a simple word.

When I started thinking about the projects I wanted to put my creative energy toward, it went beyond what we were doing, it was about how people would feel and interact with one another. What would it feel like if we lived in harmony with each other and the planet. It didn’t take long for a search to reveal the answer! Here is what I found…