International Network Connections:
We celebrate the sharing relationships we have formed with innovative communities and organisations wordwide:
NORTH AMERICA:
Haida Nation, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada)
Malibu Hamilton (Raglan) and Will Stensness (Hokianga) met Haida president Gujaaw ( recipient of the 2006 Buffet Award for Indigenous Leadership at the Sustainable Resources conference in Colorado 2004.
In March 2007, Randal Stensness from Hokianga Harbourcare visited them as part of a Kiwi Youth Voice learning journey.
For web information on Haida Gwaii:
Haida Forest Guardians
Community Planning Forum 2004
EAGLE (Environmental-Aboriginal Guardianship through Law and Education)
Lopez Island (Washington State)
Sandy Bishop and Rhea Miller from Lopez attended a Tipu Ake retreat in 2003 and that started a long relationship and sharing particularly in relation to affordable / sustainable housing
Earl Rewi, James Goldsmith and Claud August visited them after attending and presenting at the Sharing Indigenous Wisdom Forum 2004 in Wisconsin. In March 2007, Randal Stensness from Hokianga Harbourcare visited them as part of a Kiwi Youth Voice learning journey. He returned in 2008 for an intership with the Lopez Land Trust
For Web Information
Communty Land Trust
Affordable Housing
Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development
Menominee Nation (Wisconsin)
Earl Rewi, James Goldsmith and Claud August from Te Whaiti attended and presented at the Sharing Indigenous Wisdom Forum 2004 in Wisconsin. The Meneminee pepole are famous for their sustainable forestry research and operations.
For Web Information
Official Minominee website
College of the Menominee Nation
Sustainable Development Institute Sustaining the spirit, forest and nation.
Sustaining the Forest
Haudenosaunee Nation (New York State and above)
In June 2005 Janice Annuziata was part of a hikoi of indigenous people who visited Te Whaiti on her way to attend the Indigenous Knowledges conference in Wellington. That started a connection with them and their work.
For Web Information
Address to UN Millennium World Peace Summit 2000
Haudenosaunee Environmental Restoration Strategy (UN Report)
Mother Earth and Us - A Haudenosaunee Perspective
Peace for Turtle Island
EUROPE:
Tanat Valley (Wales)
In June 2005 Dee Ramsayer a local Management Consultant discovered Tipu Ake on the web which resulted in her arranging a presentation to a group of community people at Llangedwyn Mill as part of an international seminar series "Tools for Growing Living Organisations and Communities"
They too suffer the loss of industry and a balanced sustainable population in their valley, so are working on that.
For Web Information
The Tanat Valley - Historic Landscape Characterisation
Llangedwyn Mill Craft Centre
Ann Tamaya
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