An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Life Over Lithium: Protecting the Sacred Site Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass)
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Exposing PFAS “Forever Chemicals” – Global Contamination & One Lawyer’s Battle For Justice
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The Wild Yards Project: Transforming Lawns into Biodiverse Habitats
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A Vessel for Empowerment: Overcoming Superstorm & Petrochemical Invasions with Roishetta Ozane
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Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Daily Dose of the Wild
Twittering from the Trees
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Hopi People Archive
Hopi Survival and the Supernaturals: Revenge of the Kachinas
Posted on November 26, 2017 | 3 CommentsHere is a retelling of the Hopi story, The Revenge of the Katcinas (Kachinas or Katsinam). To grow crops and survive in their mountainous desert, the Hopis understand the necessity for proper devotion to the supernatural powers, known as the Kachinas, who embody the spirits of living things and also of ancestors who have died and become a part of nature. When the people fall out of favor with the supernaturals, disaster results.Fracking Boom Surrounds Sacred Chaco Canyon
Posted on February 19, 2015 | 1 CommentThe fracking boom threatens Puebloan and Hopi ancestral homelands around New Mexico's sacred Chaco Canyon and local Diné communities are fighting drilling, pipeline projects and just general industrialization of their region without bringing real economic development. See the videos from the Solstice Project.Colorado River: Dams and Drought, the Folly of Taming Nature
Posted on January 16, 2014 | 1 CommentHow two bitter opponents, Barry Goldwater and David Brower, came to realize the folly of dam building and desert over-development in the arid Southwest United States. It is time to open the floodgates of Glen Canyon Dam.Soyal Ceremony: Hopi Kachinas Dance at Winter Solstice
Posted on December 22, 2011 | 15 CommentsThe Soyal Ceremony begins on the shortest day of the year, and symbolizes the second phase of Creation at the Dawn of Life. Its prayers and rituals implement a plan of life for the coming year, ceremonially turning back the sun toward its summer path.Hopi Butterfly Dance: Ceremonial Gratitude
Posted on June 17, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe Butterfly Dance is a Hopi ceremony petitioning for rain, and health for all living things, thanking the beautiful butterfly for pollinating plant life.Hopi Legend Part 3: Wildfire of Purification and Old Spider Woman
Posted on June 9, 2011 | 9 CommentsMytho-Historical Prophecy: Facing certain destruction by a massive wildfire raging down from the high peaks, the Oraibi village leader consults Old Spider Woman on overcoming the state of koyaanisqatsi, or life out of balance, that had befallen the land.Hopi Legend Part 2: The Yaayapontsa Dance of Fire
Posted on May 29, 2011 | 3 CommentsFollowing the dances of the kachinas in the wayward village of Pivanhonkyapi suffering the imbalance of Koyaanisqatsi, the dreaded Yaayapontsa arrive to purify the world with fire.Hopi Legend: Koyaanisqatsi and World Destruction
Posted on May 25, 2011 | 10 CommentsThe Hopi curse of Koyaanisqatsi marks the total disintegration of the life of harmony and balance. The subject of a 1982 tone poem of modern day environmental devastation by Godfrey Reggio, also shown in the mythological destruction of the ancient Hopi city of Pivanhonkyapi.