From friendsofnps at nativeperspectives.net Fri May 7 11:02:59 2010 From: friendsofnps at nativeperspectives.net (Native Perspectives on Sustainability) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:02:59 -0700 Subject: NPS - Redefining Wealth Message-ID: Dear Friends, "Redefining Wealth " (2:19), featuring Roberta Conner (Cayuse), is the latest offering from Native Perspectives on Sustainability. Conner shares a cultural lesson about gratitude and envisions a time and place where wealth is defined by measures of greater importance than materialism. I would like to dedicate this clip to all mother's, who see clearly in caring for their children what is truly important in this life. Thank you, Mom! Be well (i.e., be wealthy), Dave -- David E. Hall, Ph.D. Native Perspectives on Sustainability: Voices from Salmon Nation Seeking a deeper understanding of our place on Earth www. nativeperspectives .net Connect with Native Perspectives on Sustainability through Facebook Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm5N8qrXVvI To manage your subscription to this mailing list click here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From friendsofnps at nativeperspectives.net Wed May 19 10:58:34 2010 From: friendsofnps at nativeperspectives.net (Native Perspectives on Sustainability) Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:58:34 -0700 Subject: NPS - Being Present Message-ID: Dear Friends, I am pleased to share a new clip, "Being Present" (4:39), featuring Larry Merculieff (Aleut). Merculieff tells a story from his childhood about learning through observation of Aleut hunters and seabirds how one profoundly connects with the earth. Additionally, a couple items from our friends at Ecotrust and the Earth and Spirit Council. Ecotrust has opened the nominations cycle for the Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award. Details about the award and Ecotrust are provided below, and more about the nomination process can be found here: http://www.ecotrust.org/indigenousleaders/guidelines.html The Earth and Spirit Council is presenting a special encore of "For the Next 7 Generations," a documentary film about the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers (see attached flier). When: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 6:30 pm (door open at 6:00 pm) Where: The Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland 97212 Tickets: $8 advance tickets and $10 at the door. Advanced tickets are recommended; as the last showing sold out. Click here to purchase tickets in advance. Be well, Dave -- David E. Hall, Ph.D. Native Perspectives on Sustainability: Voices from Salmon Nation Seeking a deeper understanding of our place on Earth www. nativeperspectives .net Connect with Native Perspectives on Sustainability through Facebook Video link: http://www.youtube.com/user/NativePerspectives#p/a/u/0/NUI6tUCtY28 To unsubscribe or manage your subscription to this mailing list click here ----------------------------------------- ECOTRUST INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP AWARD OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS Five Innovative Northwest Leaders To Be Recognized In December With $45,000 PORTLAND, Ore., May 17, 2010 Ecotrust today opened nominations for the annual Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award, a recognition program for individuals who demonstrate durable qualities of leadership for improvement of social, economic, political and environmental conditions in their homelands. In December, the Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership awardee will receive a cash award of $25,000, and four finalists will each receive $5,000. The Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award has quietly become one of the preeminent programs for honoring and supporting tribal, First Nation, and Alaska Native leaders in the West. Each year, the award recognizes five of the West¹s most innovative indigenous leaders for their efforts to improve conditions in their communities. Individuals are eligible if they are First Nation or tribal members, over 35 years of age, and work, or have worked, with an indigenous organization or community within the states of Oregon, Washington, California, western Montana, Nevada, Idaho, Alaska or the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. Award nominees are leaders who work to improve a community¹s resource base, cultural base, economic security, or health and wellness. The 2010 nomination deadline is August 15. In September 2010, a reading panel will review all nominations. A majority of the reading panel consists of native leaders, and they select five nominations to forward to the final jury. The final jury is comprised of eminent indigenous leaders who make the final awardee selection and guide the program¹s processes and policies. Final jury members have included: Dalee Sambo Dorough (Inupiaq), Alan Parker (Chippewa-Cree), Chief Leah George-Wilson (Tsleil Waututh Nation), Kathy Hill (Klamath Tribes), Antone Minthorn (Cayuse), and non-voting members Spencer B. Beebe (Ecotrust founder and president) and Elizabeth Woody (Navajo-Warm Springs-Wasco-Yakama). The 2010 award ceremony will be held on December 2 at Ecotrust¹s Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center in Portland. Ecotrust covers travel and lodging expenses for the awardee and finalists. Ecotrust believes that tribes and First Nations are more than an ethnic or minority demographic; they are nations and representative governments, major landowners, committed co-managers in natural resources, and major drivers of local and regional economies. Tribes, First Nations, and Alaska Natives hold long-range vision, sustainable societal values and a history of the land and marine terrestrial ecosystems that provide a sense of place in the growing global economy. To nominate someone for the Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award, please visit: http://www.ecotrust.org/indigenousleaders/guidelines.html To hear from previous awardees and finalists, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/Ecotrust#p/u/6/ER0JK3xXw8s About Ecotrust Over nearly 20 years, Ecotrust has converted $60 million in grants into more than $300 million in capital for local people, businesses, and organizations from Alaska to California. Ecotrust¹s many innovations include co-founding the world¹s first environmental bank, starting the world¹s first ecosystem investment fund, creating a range of programs in fisheries, forestry, food, farms and children¹s health, and developing new scientific and information tools to improve social, economic and environmental decision-making. Ecotrust works locally in ways that promise hope abroad, and it honors and supports the wisdom of Native and First Nation leadership in its work. More on the Web at www.ecotrust.org. Contact: Gloria Borg Olds Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award 503-467-0773 gborg at ecotrust.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2010 05 26 Next 7 Gen flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 246990 bytes Desc: not available URL: