Growing Native

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GROWING NATIVE will be a seven-part series focusing on reclaiming traditional knowledge and food ways to address critical issues of health and wellness, the environment and human rights. GROWING NATIVE will focus on Tribes, stories and events from seven geographic regions, including the Northwest, Southwest, Southern Plains/Oklahoma, Northeast, Southeast, Northern Plains/Canada and Alaska. Across the country, Native people are regaining health and strength through the recovery and revitalization of traditional knowledge systems of land, language, traditional arts and health.

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Growing Native Request for Stories

Postmark Deadline: March 16, 2012
Notification: April 15, 2012

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NAPT seeks stories that can be included in the seven-part series, Growing Native which will focus on reclaiming traditional knowledge and food ways to address critical issues of health and wellness, the environment and human rights. Segments intended for Growing Native will be five to fifteen-minutes in length, and will also be part of rich, web-based interactive media.

Indigenous Solutions for a Sustainable Future

The Traditional Native American Farmers Association, also known as TNAFA, held its 16th Annual Indigenous Sustainable Communities Design Course July 2011, in collaboration with Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture in Northern Arizona. TNAFA has been working since 1992 to increase the Native community's interest in agriculture, especially the youth. Instructor Lilian Hill taught a natural building workshop on the Hopi Reservation, where agricultural methods date back as far as the 1500s.

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Growing Native Trailer Debuts at the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Native Cinema Showcase

NAPT hosted the first Media for Change Workshop focusing on documentary film and social issues held at the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This unique workshop for Native Media Makers and Educators included speakers Molly Murphy of Working Films and Rose M. Poston (Sandia Pueblo) of KNME-TV. At the workshop, I was able to meet key individuals who are working in the Indigenous Sustainability movement and in alignment with similar goals as our television project Growing Native.