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Black and White are coloring crayons NOT Identities #RootedResistence 👊🏾 🦁 🌱

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Thank you Seattle Now team for coming to learn more about the Heron’s Nest!
Listen to the interview: https://omny.fm/shows/seattle-now/a-duwamish-land-back-project-in-west-seattle-is-healing-both-land-and-people

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We love autumn season so much! Today’s food harvest was abundant…even some ornaments for the Duwamish Longhouse

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🌎 Meet the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress’ Arts Council!

🌱 A NATURALISTS NOTES ON A RELATIONAL SPECIES ///

SPECIES: Homo recipricous

COMMON NAME: Aloysious, Grand Daughter of Margaret, Daugter of Angela, Mother of EmbryAnna

HABITAT: The Duwamish Greenbelt, Fireside, Deaths doorstep, Births, Wild spaces, Creative Resistance gatherings, Moon Jams,

DIET: Stories, Cultivating hope, Soft foods, Matcha cream soda, tending the wounded, drum beats, bug song & the unknown

KNOWN RELATIONS: The Salish Sea, the Duwamish River, the collective trauma body, pheonix, the mycelial web, beaver, spider, bee, vulture, turtle wolf & bear

CALL: “What does it feel like to live in right relationship?”

BEHAVIOR:
- Listens deeply-to land, to ancestors, to the more-than-human world
- Turns questions into doorways
- Frequently found following a problem back to its root, only to discover the relationship underneath it.
- Known to build structures that invite people to stay longer than they intended

ECOLOGICAL ROLE:
- Dispellls collective illusions
- Disturbs stagnant systems
- Creates habitat for unlikely alliances
- Pollinates ideas
- Facilitates reconnection between humans and the living world

CAUTION:
- May ask questions at inconvinient times
- Engaging in dialogue may result in cognitive dissonance
- Will challenge the assumption that humans are separate from the living world
- known to work with fire, wood, rock, blood, spit, laughter and tears

*** Approach with curiosity***

“I tend the edges-between human and more-than-human, between remembering and becoming, between the stories we inherited and the stories the land is telling.”

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Tribally appointed Restoration Lead for The Heron’s Nest Landback project (with respect to The DuwamishTribe)

https://www.theheronsnest.org/staff

@heronsnestoutdoor
@duwamishtribe
@realrentduwamish

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Just a little love song for these @heronsnestoutdoor flower friends I get to sit with, listen to and sing with every Monday 🌸

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Learn how to make soothing and moisturizing salves for yourself and and others!

Date: Wednesday, 8/26/26
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Location: Heron's Nest
Space is limited - pre-register is necessary.

https://forms.gle/MkF5wPVAQkYcT8aw7.

This project is funded in part by a Food Equity Fund award from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods.

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I love you too Herons Nest Garden! I got your note at breakfast…and then all day I saw your love notes all over the land. Thank you for feeding us humans, the bees, the worms, the birds, the rodents, all the animal relatives. Thank you for the work that your roots, leaves, flowers and seeds do for this world. You are brilliant! More plants less people ✊

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Saturday, August 29th. 11am-3pm. Come serve the forest.
Please preregister: https://seattle.greencitypartnerships.org/event/44582/

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Summer Harvests are so much fun (and delicious)!

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Days 4 - 8: Canoe Journey- Paddle to Nisqually.
After landing, we witnessed 5 days of powerful Song & Dance at Protocol, hosted by the Nisqually Tribe. The Duwamish Canoe Family was joined by Duwamish Tribal Leadership and some leaders of the Snohomish Tribe. Such an honor to have them stand with us. Thank you to all those that witnessed our protocol and came down to dance during our invitationals. Thank you to the Duwamish for inviting the Heron’s Nest crew to participate in Canoe Journey and stand with them again this year. It is an honor.

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- Duwamish Canoe Family, Drummers & Singers, Dancers, Duwamish & Snohomish
Leaders ready for Protocol.
- getting ready for the Eagle Song
- Giving gratitude during the Table Song
- The Eagle Song on the protocol floor.
- Farmer J feeling the joy of Journey
- Nisqually royalty giving permission to untie the Canoe

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Day 3 - canoe Journey. Paddle to Nisqually, landing day on 7/31. So much gratitude to the Cowlitz canoe family for helping us carry our canoe to the water. Thank you to the Steilacoom Tribe for hosting a soft landing on their territory, it was beautiful and such a warm welcome. Thank you to the Nisqually Tribe for welcoming us ashore on their territory. We are so excited to share song and dance this week.

Pix:
- Cowlitz Canoe Family & Duwamish Canoe Family help carry each other’s canoes to the water.
- Canoes landed at Steilacoom.
- Paddling towards Nisqually territory
- Duwamish Canoe Family
- waiting for permission to land at Nisqually

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Day 2 - Paddle to Nisqually. Duwamish Canoe Family departs Blake Island for Puyallup Territory.
- sunrise from Blake Island
- Duwamish Canoe kikisoblu waiting for departure
- approaching Puyallup territory aka Tacoma, Mt Tahoma shows up.
- waiting to ask for permission to land at Puyallup

Thank you to the Puyallup Tribe of Indians for graciously welcoming and hosting us. So much gratitude to those that helped us carry our canoe on shore. The food, song and dance was a gift. Thank you to this amazing canoe family that fills our bellies with laughter with each stroke. Thank you to our amazing ground crew and support boats, you keep us safe and pampered. Tomorrow we pull to our final destination, Nisqually Territory.

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Happy Birthday Aloysious! Herons Nest would not be what it is without you. Thank you for your care, patience and teachings.

Pix:
- Beaver Aloysious lounging in their favorite spot…the wood chip pile
- Nasty Alo
- first radish harvest
- sandita sisters forever! Love you - Farmer J

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