Intention of this podcast was to link the Ohlone community's local history to the present-day work the community & leaders are doing to defend their sacred land and to preserve their culture.

California indigenous nations have thousands of years of knowledge that has survived multiple waves of colonization and attempted destruction. Kanyon Coyote Woman Sayers-Roods, an Ohlone Mutsun two-spirited community member from the California Central Coast, tells about the Ohlone people’s culture and their history of resistance and resilience.

This episode was produced and edited by Dennis Maxwell for the Redwood City School District. The music was composed by Axel Herrera. The art cover was made by Claudio Talavera Ballon. Special thanks to Laura Pulido, Liz Wolfe and Mariela Talavera Ballon from the Redwood City School District, to Kanyon Coyote Woman Sayers-Roods, Martín Cruz, Leila Salazar, and María Xiomara Dorsey.

ARTWORK BY: https://instagram.com/talavera.ballon?igshid=ttaicp8h3xgl


original post:
https://soundcloud.com/dennis-maxwell-801555295/coyote-woman-on-the-path-of-her-ancestors

support: Dennis Maxwell
https://soundcloud.com/dennis-maxwell-801555295

Coyote Woman On The Path Of Her Ancestors

David Wei of WuDangWest - presents KungFood

Audio from David Wei - KungFood is Medicine

Earth my Body
Water my Blood
Air my Breath
Fire my Spirit

in the Mutsun-Ohlone language as well as english

EARTH Song - MUTSUN + English version

A chumash grandmother song that came to Kanyon

Kanyon's Chumash Grandmother song - RAW

Cal Academy of Science Nightlife- Fungus among Us
Indigenous perspectives on mycology with a talk from Mutsun-Ohlone Indigenous consultant Kanyon Sayers-Roods. 

Fungal networks connect living systems. Building relationality into sacred while approaching reconnection to the Fungal Kin-dom.

🍄✨🍄✨🍄✨🌀

Indigenous Pedagogies, Sacred Living Systems. & Ancient Future Relationship to Fungi. Is the science of mycology really inclusive? Allison Shiozaki, co-founder of Decolonize Mycology, a BIPOC & QT2SBIPOC group, and Kanyon Sayers-Roods, a Mutsun-Ohlone Indigenous consultant and CEO of Kanyon Konsulting LLC, invite you to explore how to build meaningful relationships to the land with accountability and reciprocity, and engage integral grounding into the sacred mycelial network. 


Allison Shiozaki, co-founder of Decolonize Mycology, shares their reflections on connection to the fungal kin-dom and their personal experiences within Mycological societies at large. Their desire is to build deeper, more meaningful and respectful relationships to the land, and original caretakers.
Video shared in this presentation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QBJ3aq7G1cE&feature=youtu.be




Continue Learning:

we're on Instagram, @KanyonKonsulting @decolonizemycology, also recommend following @PocFungiCommunity

#HonorNativeLand
www.native-land.ca

+ We want to people to see what Winnemum Wintu have been through in Panther Meadow + what's happening at Red Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QopPwlN68GQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6XMSdFf_Q

this is IG account has a lot of really good information about what's been happening at Red Hill facility, from a kanaka POV
https://www.instagram.com/healanipale/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00YFSa9SvtY





Fungus_Among_us_CALAcademy-Allison+Kanyon

KidsinCommon Childrens Summit Opening 2022

Mutsun Earth Song
Mutsun Pire Saawe


pire kan-ama,
sii kan-patYtYan,
hiTTew kan-nossow,
sottow kan-nossow

Earth My Body
Water My Blood
Air My Breath
Fire My Spirit 


Tierra Mi cuerpo, 
Agua Mi Sangre, 
Aire Mi Aliento, 
Fuego Mi Espíritu

Earth Song (Pire Saawe) - Mutsun Language

Grace Cathedral screening of In The Land of My Ancestors with Rucha Chitnis  Ann Marie Sayers and Kanyon Sayers-Roods

In Yelamu Ramaytush Ohlone Territory
#HonorNativeLand

https://kanyonkonsulting.com/in-the-land-of-my-ancestors/

In The Land of My Ancestors - in Yelamu - GraceCathedral

Land-Acknowledgements-Conversation-SFSU

We gathered in Tamien Territory.

Ann-Marie Sayers - Kanyon Konsulting - Tim Myers 
came together to share culture, share stories, and be in community.


Witness a map of spanish occupation - missionization
http://farwestern.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=7e23273533a8483697ae102ac9b9d114

Acknowledging the Land is very important - 

We stand on the traditional lands of the ones who we know today as the Ohlone people. Ohlone Territory spans from San Francisco East towards Oakland and South towards Monterey. There are 8 language dialects within this territory and historically there are over 60 village sites .

It is important that we recognize the original stewards of the territory.
We pay our respect to elders both past and present. 
We acknowledge that not only are we on their lands but that they are still here and part of the community.

There are active Community groups that have indigenous ancestry to this territory and it's important that we as community learn and connect.

This land has been home to Ohlone peoples for more than 10,000 years. We acknowledge the Ramaytush Ohlone, neighbored by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and Confederated Villages of Lisjan Ohlone in the East Bay. To the south, we acknowledge the Amah Mustun Tribal Band and Indian Canyon Band, the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe, and the Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation. To the west, we acknowledge the great Pacific Ocean that has connected peoples along the coast and across the waters for generation upon generation. To the north, we acknowledge the Coast Miwok, who along with the Southern Pomo, are the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. This land remains the home of Ohlone, Miwok, and other coastal California Indigenous peoples. It is also the home of many Indigenous peoples as a result of federal relocation polices such as Cherokee, Dine, T’ohono O’odham and other First Nations and the heart of important Indigenous political movements, including the historic occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 as part of the American Indian Movement. Today, this land is also home to Indigenous migrants from the south, including Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya. We honor their ancestors, elders, and community leaders, past, present, and into the future. We speak these words to honor the Ohlone peoples and invite all here to reflect on their relationship to the histories of this land and her peoples. Today, San Francisco remains among the top 10 cities with the highest rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women. We also wish to mention that at this time the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band is working to protect Juristac, a sacred place in Santa Clara County, from a massive mining development. We invite you to get involved and do your part to work with and support Indigenous struggles on these lands. May the balance be restored.

Storytelling at Santa Clara University with Ann Marie Sayers and Kanyon Konsulting

‘Shamanism’ & Cultural Appropriation: Indigenous Perspectives
Laura Perlin - Gregg Castro - Kanyon Konsulting LLC

The words shaman, shamanism, and shamanic are used a lot
in spiritual & healing arts spaces, but what do these words really
mean? How does their usage in western circles relate to & impact
the lived experiences & diverse spiritualities of the Evenk & other Siberian indigenous people from whose cultures these words
come? How does mis-identification with this word impact other
indigenous groups?Nuanced, multi-perspective discussion will be
facilitated by three indigenous people, including two Ohlone California natives & one Sakha Siberian ancestored person.

‘Shamanism’ & Cultural Appropriation: Indigenous Perspectives

Gathering in Coast Miwok Land ( #HonorNativeLand ) 
Miller Creek Assembly of 6th Graders - we watched a mini documentary about Indian Canyon [Ann-Marie Sayers] and honoring truth in history.
Storytelling by Kanyon Konsulting LLC - Kanyon Sayers-Roods

https://kanyonkonsulting.com/in-the-land-of-my-ancestors/

We watched this film:
https://www.kqed.org/trulyca/2998/in-the-land-of-my-ancestors

ITLMA at Miller Creek Assembly

1836 – Indian Canyon, Decolonizing, and Indigenous Value Systems with Kanyon Coyote Woman
 #ThePermaculturePodcast with Scott Mann

In this episode co-host David Bilbrey sits down with the teacher, activist, and permaculture practitioner Kanyon Sayers-Roods, also known as Coyote Woman, to talk about her work on the land at Indian Canyon, California to educate and inspire others in their understanding of the natural world, the connections between individuals and communities, and what we can do to approach our interactions with humility.

https://www.thepermaculturepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Episode1836.mp3

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During their conversation Kanyon and David also touch on the history of Indian Canyon and the role this location had for native peoples of California, being thoughtful with our words and actions, and to consider the impacts our choices have on ourselves, our descendants, and the land.

Find out more about Kanyon’s work at kanyonkonsulting.com indiancanyonlife.org.

There is a lot to unpack from this conversation, with more emerging with each additional listen. I realized that my thoughts on what was expressed could easily take an hour or more to explore all the threads and thoughts that Kanyon raised, so I’ll try to keep this shorter than that.

A piece that continues to resonate is what we can do to ask better questions and seek deeper understanding. I hear this in Kanyon’s words when talking about the role of cultural recognition and identity and asking from a place of humility. To know the history of the land beyond the physical impacts of industry or previous development, but also of those who called that land home and how they got there. To recognize the distinction of being native to a place versus being indigenous to it.

One of the reasons I found permaculture appealing decades ago was that as Bill wrote about the foundational ideas in the Designers’ manual, something that stood out was that what we are doing in our thought and design processes to look for what we can give and then receive in return. We build relationships in reciprocity.

Let’s take that a step further and deepen our work to honor and respect those people who came before us and how they knew and worked the land. We have a lot to learn and a lot to share.

—

What are your thoughts after hearing this interview with Kanyon?

Leave a comment in the show notes or reach out to directly:

Email: show@thepermaculturepodcast.com
Call: 717-827-6266

Write:

The Permaculture Podcast
P.O. Box 16
Dauphin, PA 17018

With only 4 regular episode left in the year, I’m not sure which will be out in a few weeks, as David and I are shuffling around the scheduled so that we can explore some topics in more depth through a series of related interviews in 2019.

Whatever may come, until the next time, spend each day creating the world you want to live in by taking care of Earth, your self, and each other.

Resources
Indian Canyon Life | Indiancanyonlife.org
Kanyon Sayers-Roods | kanyonkonsulting.com/coyotewoman https://www.indiancanyonlife.org/ksr/
Kanyon Konsulting | Kanyonkonsulting.com

Dawes Act of 1887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act


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The Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann

Indian Canyon, Decolonization, and Indigenous Traditions on ThePermaculturePodcast

Warrior Cross Cultural Center STANISLAUS STATE

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY: TWO SPIRIT QUEER CALIFORNIA UNTOLD STORIES

The Warrior Cross Cultural Center invites all warriors to help pre-celebrate Indigenous People's Day! Join us virtually for a short film & discussion featuring "Two Spirit Queer California: Untold Stories". Discussion following the film with Kanyon Sayers-Roods, also known as "Coyote Woman”. Kanyon is a two-spirit steward of Indian Canyon, activist, Catalyst of decolonizing conversations, educator and creative artist ever inspired by nature and the natural world. Kanyon's work has been featured at the De Young Museum, SOMArts Gallery, Gathering Tribes and many indigenous powwows and gatherings.

Thursday, October 8 12:30p.m.-2:00p.m.

"My name is Kanyon Coyote Woman. I am of Indian Canyon Nation. I am Mutsun, Ohlone, Chumash, a little bit of Mohawk and a little bit of Euro Mutt. Ohlone land is San Francisco Bay Area region all the way down to Monterrey Bay. Ohlone is a misnomer."

Learn more http://kanyonkonsulting.com

KKLLC speaks with Stanislaus students about TwoSpirit

What: Climate of Hope Online Forum - Women, Girls, and Climate Justice

When: March 3rd, 3-5 pm PST on Zoom with optional networking 5-6 pm

RSVP: http://bit.ly/women_girls_climate

Language: Interpretation in Spanish and Mixteco will be available on Zoom and by phone conference line. 

Spanish: (602) 580-9748 Access Code 3470165#

Mixteco: (425) 436-6304 Access Code: 7427151#

Livestream: to Facebook @regenerationpajarovalley

 

Featured speakers include:

Kanyon Sayers-Roods, Cultural Representative and Native Monitor for Indian Canyon Mutsun Band of Costanoan/Ohlone People, Kanyon Konsulting LLC

Leslie Aguayo- Environmental Equity Program Manager, The Greenlining Institute

 

Ashley Gauer of Monterey Bay Economic Partnership will moderate a panel focusing on women paving the way for equitable climate resiliency:

Nayeli Gallardo - Sustainable Energy

Natasha Burr -Landscape Designer

Hermelinda Vasquez and Mireya Gomez Contreras - Esperanza Community Farms

 

 

We will be presenting a Virtual Art Show from the Pajaro Valley Arts Gallery showcasing women artists that illustrate connections to the environment. Pajaro Valley youth will also be featured through video and art.

 

We welcome a diverse audience so that we can foster and cultivate women’s leadership in all sectors of society. Attendees will also be given the option to join a virtual networking meeting after the webinar for further discussion. 

 

Please support open access to this event as you register by making a secure donation on our website: www.regenerationpajarovalley.org 

Suggested gift range - $15-100

Together we can begin to redistribute wealth and invest in the people and communities that are presently and historically impacted by social and economic oppression. 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-of-hope-women-girls-and-climate-justice-tickets-136739693103?



Follow us on social media for updates and other environmental justice information. 

Facebook: @regenerationpajarovalley

Instagram: @regenerationpv

Questions - (831) 288-7755  or info@regenerationpajarovalley.org

 

Major support provided by a California Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice Small Grant & Ecology Action

 

#ClimateofHope #ClimateofHope2021 #climatesolutions #Regeneration #ClimateJustice #womenandclimatejustice

Climate of Hope Online Forum - Women, Girls, and Climate Justice CSUMB

This recording is of the 1:30 to 3PM 
Discussion of Land Acknowledgement and Relationship Building guidelines with Indigenous leaders

Listening to the Land Together, Weaving Connections among Indigenous Wisdom Keepers and Ecosystem Restoration Allies. What we're proposing is to strike a harmonic chord among eager ecosystem restorers and living Indigenous communities ready to right the wrongs of history.

For nearly a year, our Cultural Competence Circle has been meeting two times a month to learn how to strike just the right harmonic chord. We need each other.

ERC folks restoring settler colonial properties without facing the historical significance of the genocide that got us here, may stumble. Indigenous people attempting to return forests, meadows and rivers to their carefully tended condition before contact may need help. Many in both "camps" are urban with skills to learn in the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) tradition.

Learning to work together with respect is our context, our challenge, and the historic moment where we find ourselves. It's epic! We've got to get it right this time.
Register
About this Event:
 

Intentions for the Day:

Discuss ideas for Building Relationships and Developing Trust among Indigenous communities and Ecosystem Restoration camp community allies
Learn from inspirational guest speakers Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk) and Gregg Castro (t'rowt'raahl Salinan/rumsien-ramaytush Ohlone)
Explore the practical applications of decolonizing ourselves and our organizations
Imagine what it would take to form an advisory committee for camp communities and a consultation service on relationship building -- including how Indigenous advisors's time is valued
Discover the opportunity to sign up for a 12-week course (offered 3 X per year) where people explore their relationship to colonization and learn authentic relationship-building on unceded occupied lands
Network to form and grow camp communities that include alliances with Indigenous communities and support efforts already underway
Ecosystem Restoration Camp Communities California is a “hub” of the International Organization. The Cultural Competence Circle study group has been meeting under these auspices for most of 2020 to develop strategies for partnering authentically with Indigenous communities on the West Coast of the U.S. Working together on our DRAFT Land Acknowledgement and Relationship-Building guidelines, under the guidance of Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, led us to offer this program.

This document has circulated for review to interested Indigenous groups associated with our camp communities. Their names are included as reviewers. Some chose not to be listed. Please review the document and join the discussion on Saturday afternoon, February 27.

Schedule:

Feel free to join us for all or part of the day. Indigenous advisors for the camps will participate on and off throughout the day and be present for our afternoon discussion session.

9am -- Greeting by Gregg Castro and brief introductions of each of our active camp communities within their Indigenous contexts

10am -- Keynote address: Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, #LandBack - What Good is a Land Acknowledgement? with Q&A

11:30am -- Panel led by Gregg Castro, Building Bridges Across the Cultural Divide with Q&A

1pm -- Lunch Break and Networking Mixer -- eat together and/or go out into nature

1:30pm -- Discussion of Land Acknowledgement and Relationship Building guidelines with Indigenous leaders

3:30pm on -- Optional Networking Hang-out

Also, you will get much more out of the day if you review our 9-page Land Acknowledgement and Relationship Building Guidelines developed by the Cultural Competence Circle of Ecosystem Restoration Camps California over the past year. You will have a chance to participate in a lively discussion from 1:30 - 3:30. 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16aaQJ70h-SosvIMu9MuT8QBfa36P_IvvY3C3jKJfPGQ/edit

Listening to the Land Together - Cultural Competency conversations

Activist, artist, educator – an Indigenous Generalized Specialist

CEO of Kanyon Konsulting LLC
Founder of Indian Canyon Two-Spirit Society
Cultural Director and COO of Costanoan Indian Research
Cultural Representative and Native Monitor for Indian Canyon Mutsun Band of Costanoan Ohlone People

Artist of Woven Media
I am Ohlone & Chumash – California Native Woman. I am a creative artist ever inspired by nature and the natural world, Catalyst of decolonizing conversations. Contemp/Traditional Artist, Native Representative, Consultant, Advocate of Truth in History, Multimedia Artist, “Coyote”, T.E.K educator, and much more – Let’s Talk

Introduction Bio:
Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman”. She is proud of her heritage and her native name (though it comes with its own back story), and is very active in the Native Community. She is an Artist, Poet, Published Author, Activist, Student and Teacher. The daughter of Ann-Marie Sayers, she was raised in Indian Canyon, trust land of her family, which currently is one of the few spaces in Central California available for the Indigenous community for ceremony. Kanyon’s art has been featured at the De Young Museum, The Somarts Gallery, Gathering Tribes, Snag Magazine, and numerous Powwows and Indigenous Gatherings. She is a recent graduate of the Art Institute of California, Sunnyvale, obtaining her Associate and Bachelor of Science degrees in Web Design and Interactive Media. She is motivated to learn, teach, start conversations around decolonization and reinidgenization, permaculture and to continue doing what she loves, Art.

“I am a creative artist ever inspired by nature and the natural world. I make a difference in the lives of others by sharing my life experiences and knowledge about California Native Americans. I have the gift of communication, starting conversations around decolonization and indigenization, and challenge myself to utilize this gift to deliver powerfully effective messages for others. My personal mission, which I intend to carry out in my career, is to contribute toward the goal of global education with emphasis on promoting understanding of the relationship between humanity and the natural world.”

-Kanyon CoyoteWoman Sayers-Roods
Artist Statement:     Costanoan Ohlone Mutsun and Chumash Native American Kanyon Sayers-Roods’ (Hahashkani-Coyote Woman) art is a sincere expression of her Native heritage. Kanyon’s visual descriptions are always based on nature and the natural world. Dedicated and active in the Native Community, Kanyon provides leadership, serving as an artist, poet, activist, student and teacher for up and coming scholars ready to challenge their creative paths and remind people what it means to decolonized. Kanyon’s lifelong artistic vision is to convey principal ideas of Native culture through visual means. Offering her voice and her art to remind our community that Indigenous perspectives and cultural continuity is ever present and prevalent.

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