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Willamette Week - Best Lifeboat
Some kids have farewell dances or pizza parties, but the eighth-grade class at Portland Waldorf School built an Inuit whaling boat to celebrate their graduation. With the help of local wilderness organization TrackersNW and the Ancestral Lifeways Community , the 30-student class spent four days on a permaculture farm outside of […]

The Class(y) Umiak

On Saturday, June 2nd my teacher Francine Adams, myself and 29 other eighth graders from the Portland Waldorf School (PWS) as well as seven staff from Trackers NW arrived at Cedar Grove Farm, a permaculture farm outside of Port Orford, Oregon. One of our tasks was to build an umiak, a traditional Inuit whaling […]

Jon Young, Seven Generations, and Beyond

Jon Young gave a great lecture on Friday, speaking to the group about the importance of cultural mentoring, the system that he has evolved over time side by side with native elders from the Akamba of Kenya, San of the Kalahari, Haudenosaunee of the Northeast and Polynesians of Hawa’i’i.
So what is this cultural mentoring thing […]

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