Such a privilege to hear about Delfin's knowledge of the ecosystem of which his people are a part and transport myself back to the time, not so very long ago relative to the whole human history, that would have been true for us all. So tragic all that skill and knowledge is not treasured. Thank you for all you are doing.
I love reading this! However, I have a curiosity about the paradise you describe in the Amazonian rain forest. Do they hunt prey? If so, with what tools? I am asking this not because I am vegetarian, but because to my eyes our western civilization can only be explained as the outcome of trauma, inherent in having to be a hunter.
I wouldn’t romanticize it as a paradise, especially with a lot of Amazon forest communities (that we talk about in the full interview) whose lands and waters have been polluted and decimated and who have been forced to live with manufactured scarcity, poverty, and violence. The evidence that we do have is that for those communities now forced to rely on industrial, Western economies, and plagued by the highest rates of economic poverty because they can no longer be land-rooted in how they knew to live for generations, the cause, as they will also share from firsthand experience, is very directly trauma from colonization and forced displacement / desecration driven by outsiders. There is literature on exploited farm workers of factory farms experiencing trauma from that type of a violence, though that context is entirely different. Thank you for reading!
Such a privilege to hear about Delfin's knowledge of the ecosystem of which his people are a part and transport myself back to the time, not so very long ago relative to the whole human history, that would have been true for us all. So tragic all that skill and knowledge is not treasured. Thank you for all you are doing.
Thank you so much for reading & honoring Delfín’s knowledge 🌸🌿
This piece beautifully reframes “convenience” as something rooted in connection, not consumption.
Thank you for reminding us that true abundance comes from relationship with land, community, and spirit.
Thank you so much for reading, and for all you do! Glad it resonated with you!
You are welcome
I love reading this! However, I have a curiosity about the paradise you describe in the Amazonian rain forest. Do they hunt prey? If so, with what tools? I am asking this not because I am vegetarian, but because to my eyes our western civilization can only be explained as the outcome of trauma, inherent in having to be a hunter.
I wouldn’t romanticize it as a paradise, especially with a lot of Amazon forest communities (that we talk about in the full interview) whose lands and waters have been polluted and decimated and who have been forced to live with manufactured scarcity, poverty, and violence. The evidence that we do have is that for those communities now forced to rely on industrial, Western economies, and plagued by the highest rates of economic poverty because they can no longer be land-rooted in how they knew to live for generations, the cause, as they will also share from firsthand experience, is very directly trauma from colonization and forced displacement / desecration driven by outsiders. There is literature on exploited farm workers of factory farms experiencing trauma from that type of a violence, though that context is entirely different. Thank you for reading!
Great job, Kamea! Thank you so much for this interview and everything that you do ;)
Grateful for you!