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"Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe. Even the rocks, which seem to lie dumb as they swelter in the sun along the silent shore in solemn grandeur thrill with memories of past events connected with the fate of my people, the very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch, for the soil is rich with the life of our kindred." - Chief Seattle |
Alternative Cultures
After Culture - The DISCOVERING THE NORTH AMERICAN AFTERCULTURE is a glimpse of a future being shaped, and even lived, right now. It imagines the culture that might emerge if we fully embraced a completly sustainable, sacred world-outlook. A diorama, crafted artifacts, paintings and photomurals show a NEW NATIVE AMERICAN people whose life-patterns are healing to a damaged land. They look like us: a mixture of races and backgrounds, and there are hints that much of the knowledge gathered in our time remains alive in oral tradition. But they are also profoundly unlike us. They know themselves as part of the web of life. Seeing the natural world as an expression of the sacred, they have simplified their lives the better to move in balance with it.This is a glimpse of "a future that works:" sustainable, simple, sacred&endash;and anthropologically defensible. But it's not the only possible way we could live: the Afterculture signals a return to the rich "cultural biodiversity" that has characterized the human species for most of its sojourn here, and the viewer is challenged to imagine other versions, other tribes. [This is the old link to the "After Culture" Website]
Anthropik Network - The Anthropik Network is a closely-knit network of websites including a weblog, forums, and this wiki, The Anthropik Cyclopaedia. Other affiliated sites include Michael Godesky's comic, Mizanthropik. All sites on the Anthropik Network are maintained by the Tribe of Anthropik.
The Tribe of Anthropik is a small, loosely-defined group with ambitions of forming a functional hunter-gatherer tribe in the future. These ambitions are still in their formative stages, making the Tribe of Anthropik at this point in time primarily a philosophically and politically inclined social circle in Pittsburgh, PA (USA).
Burning Man, The - Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind.
Cultural Creatives - While Cultural Creatives are a subculture, they lack one critical ingredient in their lives: awareness of themselves as a whole people. We call them the Cultural Creatives precisely because they are already creating a new culture. If they could see how promising this creativity is for all of us, if they could know how large their numbers are, many things might follow. These optimistic, altruistic millions might be willing to speak more frankly in public settings and act more directly in shaping a new way of life for our time and the time ahead. They might lead the way toward an Integral Culture.
Culture Change - We demonstrate alternatives to sprawl and petroleum dependence while fighting unwise development such as new road construction. Rather than market-oriented economic data, we provide concepts and solutions that involve the whole community. Our network and news coverage access key data and sources.
Celtic Ways
Celtic Laguage (Gaelic)Counter Culture
Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery (CLAWS) - CLAWS is a nonprofit support group, as well as a resource clearinghouse providing access to books and other educational materials. Our main purpose is to encourage people to re-think the old ways of viewing work, jobs, and leisure in our lives.We are working together to generate viable alternatives to wage slavery. If you absolutely adore your job and don't know what a wage slave is, congratulations - you're a rare bird, and this organization probably isn't for you. We seek to transform the way people think about jobs, work, and money in our everyday lives. We envision a new way of viewing "work". For some of us, it connotes struggle, drudgery, obligation. For others, it simply connotes use of energy toward a goal, whether financially remunerated or not. Workers of the world, unite and stop working!
Zenzibar Alternative Culture - Zenzibar Alternative Culture is an alternative portal and directory of alternatives to Western mainstream culture. In every field there are people looking for different ways of living, playing, worshipping and working. Zenzibar was created to make alternative culture sites and information easily accessible. Our goal is to make Zenzibar an entertaining and useful site for those interested in information on alternative subjects from Aliens to Zen.
Indigenous People
A Line in the Sand - Cultural property includes not only land and other tangible property, but ideas, traditions, and other non-tangibles. Cultural property belongs to the cultural group, rather than to an individual. As an individual has the right to control use of his/her property, the cultural group has the right to control the use of its property. Not all people recognize cultural property. As a result some individuals will use another group's cultural properties without permission; often that use is offensive to the cultural group, because their property is used in a way that distorts or is disrespectful to the group's beliefs.Barrio Warriors de Aztlan - We are the Kalpulli of Barrio Warriors de Aztlan. We believe in self-determination for nuestra raza. We will strive at all times to provide cultural awareness and self-identity. Though self-determination we will achieve unity throughout the Barrios de Aztlan.
Black Mesa Indigenous Support - Black Mesa is not black and it is not a mesa. It is four thousand square miles of ginger-colored plateau land in northern Arizona, a distinct elevated landmass the shape of a bears paw. On a map, the Black Mesa coal field looks like an inkblot on a Rorschach test, following the contours of the Pleistocene lake it once was. Over thousands of years the vigorous forests and plant life embraced by the lake decayed into a bog which in turn hardened to coal -- some twenty-one billion tons of coal, the largest coal deposit in the United States.
Until 1969, the coal lay untouched and so close to the surface that the walls of the dry washes glistened with seams of shiny black. With a long- term value estimated as high as $100 billion, it lies completely under Indian reservation lands, for Black Mesa is also home to some sixteen thousand Navajos and eight thousand Hopis. In 1966, the Hopi and Navajo tribal councils -- not to be confused with the general tribal population -- signed strip-mining leases with a consortium of twenty utilities that had designed a new coal-fired energy grid for the urban Southwest. Under the umbrella name WEST (Western Energy Supply and Transmission), the utilities promised more air conditioning for Los Angeles, more neon lights for Las Vegas, more water for Phoenix, more power for Tucson -- and for the Indians, great wealth.
Today, thirty years after the strip mining for coal began, the cities have the energy they were promised, but the Hopi and Navajo nations are not rich -- that part of the plan proved ephemeral. Instead, Black Mesa has suffered human rights abuses and ecological devastation; the Hopi water supply is drying up; thousands of archeological sites have been destroyed; and, unbeknownst to most Americans, twelve thousand Navajos have been removed from their lands -- the largest removal of Indians in the United States since the 1880s.
Cultural Survival - Cultural Survival promotes the rights, voices, and visions of indigenous peoples by increasing global understanding of their rights, cultures, and concerns, and empowering them to be better self-advocates for their human rights.
Dumbartung (Australia) - Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation was incorporated in 1987. The primary aim of the corporation is to promote Aboriginal drama, dance, writing, painting, sculpture, craft work, music and any other Aboriginal art in Western Australia and abroad.
Friends of People Close To Nature - The forum for friends of Peoples close to Nature (f P c N) is a global movement of individuals and groups dedicated to the survival of triBal peoples, in particular hunter-gatherers. These were the first and are the last societies on Earth to have a non-exploitative relationship with the natural world. Our taskis to help them preserve their unique cultures from enforced assimilation,the ideologies of 'progress' and 'growth' and absorption in the global economy.
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB) - The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of their biological resources, cultural integrity, knowledge and collective rights.
Native Tech - Native American Technology and Art - An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, providing historical & contemporary background with instructional how-to's & references.
Native Web - NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide resources, mentoring, and services to facilitate indigenous peoples' use of this technology.
Prophecy Keepers - The only Native/Aboriginal/Ancient Prophecy websites from legally recognized Native Americans, and the original multicultural prophecy website.
Sacred Land Film Project - Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project produces a variety of media and educational materials -- films, videos, DVDs, articles, photographs, school curricula materials and Web site content -- to deepen public understanding of sacred places, indigenous cultures and environmental justice. Our mission is to use journalism, organizing and activism to rekindle reverence for land, increase respect for cultural diversity, stimulate dialogue about connections between nature and culture, and protect sacred lands and diverse spiritual practices.
Transform Columbus Day - Before Columbus sailed the Atlantic, he was a slave trader for the Portuguese, transporting West African people to Portugal to be sold as slaves. The Columbus legacy is steeped in blood, violence, and death. The Transform Columbus Day Alliance actively rejects the celebration of Christopher Columbus and his legacy of domination, oppression, and colonialism. We also reject historical misconceptions regarding Columbus and his "discovery" of the Americas.
TurtleTrack.org - Canku Ota is a free, bi-weekly, online Newsletter celebrating Native America, its traditions and accomplishments.
United Native America - United Native America was formed in 1993 as a nation wide grass roots movement to bring about a federal national holiday for Native Americans. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma fully supports this issue with resolution 91-93. United Native America resolution 1-1 calls on the federal government to stop using our tax dollars to pay for Columbus Day.
Roleplaying
Amtgard - Amtgard is a non-profit, non-sectarian group devoted to recreating elements of the medieval, ancient, and fantasy genres. The thrust of Amtgard is both recreational and educational, with major group efforts devoted to reconstructions of medieval combat. Amtgard weapons are safe, foam-padded replicas of the real things.Legends Roleplaying - Legends is a live action roleplaying game located in central Massachusetts.
NERO - NERO is an acronym that stands for the New England Roleplaying Organization, a new concept in game playing. Under NERO's unique rule system, an entire fantasy medieval town can be created. In the NERO game, you create a character concept for a fantasy story and actually play the character. It is much like improvisational theater in that you have a framework created by the props and supporting characters and must develop your part as you progress through the storyline. Your character's attitudes, ambitions, and history are yours to define.
SCA - The SCA (The Society for Creative Anachronism) is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Our "Known World" consists of 19 kingdoms, with over 30,000 members residing in countries around the world. Members, dressed in clothing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, attend events which may feature tournaments, arts exhibits, classes, workshops, dancing, feasts, and more. Our "royalty" hold courts at which they recognize and honor members for their contributions to the group.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Ardalambion - The most comprehensive site about Tolkien's invented languages that you are likely to find on the net.Encyclopedia of Arda - The Encyclopedia of Arda is a tribute to, and a celebration of, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The site is intended to evolve into an illustrated hypertext encyclopedia of Tolkien's realms and peoples.