Indigenous Commons & Kinship Trust
We are a growing planetary collective with a shared aim:
ReImagine wealth through the collective care and enjoyment of an Indigenous Commons.
Indigenous peoples still tenure the land where 80% of the worlds remaining biodiversity survives. We make up just 6% of the population. Our lifeways are woven with the more than human beings that we have created with for milennia.
Kinship Trust
A 600 year-old story, called a "theory of value," drives our global economy.
This story dictates who/what is valuable and who/what creates value. We all play parts to survive this story. Many people no longer believe in our modern economic system, we long for new story for the planetary commons. Within Indigenous Commons a new ancient story arises. One rooted in the recognition of a shared wound and a path for healing.
“We human beings are a mothering species. In taking lands and waters to colonize, we also took mothers and children to be owned. These children became the next fathers, brothers, uncles—and upon these heartbroken generations raised in scarcity and separation, our kinship worldview was lost.
As we removed ourselves from our original mother’s wisdom—our Mother Earth—we withdrew from kinship with beyond-human life. We discarded and desacralized the wisdom, intuition, and guidance of mothers and grandmothers.
Now, Mother Earth is beckoning us to return. We ask: what would it look like to live in matricultural practice—placing heart intelligence at the center of how we govern and give? What if we re-learned how to love like a mother: unconditionally, radically, and protectively?
This is our birthright and our work: to steward from love, to protect life with fierce generosity, and to remember our ancestral future. The Grand Mothering Circle is not only spiritual but structural—guiding how we create power with our brothers, fathers, and grandfathers in service of love and life.”
- Skeena Rathor Kashmiri, KinMaker
Indigenous Commons shares our STREAM of Value Creation Here A model for shifting from an extractive and power-over economy to a regenerative and power-with one.
46% of the world’s money is controlled by just 1% of the population.
Return to Commons
We are all indigenous to somewhere. And none of us will escape the coming changes on planet Earth. The ways to navigate great uncertainty are found in our ancestral traditions.
Alive in themselves, all cultures adapt with the landscape and the lives that pass through them. For folks of Western ancestry, connecting with one’s own indigeneity is a critical step to repairing self and community.
Re-member-ing Indigenous ways of relating can short-circuit patterns that are no longer viable for our lives, our families, our Earth. This process of fixing fragmentation is both intimate and civilizational.
At Indigenous Commons we revitalize important bio-cultures by redirecting money to those who hold ancestral relationship with the beyond-human world. To do this we support the repair of social technologies of ceremony, sacred art and story.
Our value is made of shared relationships, technologies, knowledges, ceremonies, embassies, lore, stewarded land relationships and new classes of assets and investment.
The future-proofing mechanisms we are creating weave together into a system that can replace much of the current financial marketplace as it turns most of the worlds capital into compost. We wet a soft landing for those with a stake in that capital could therefore mean a soft landing for all others as well, human and non-human.
KinMakers join us in all of this and more.
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“Indigenous Commons is a circle for healing; for power. We can identify medicine of consequence in our local context and initiate it to the world.”
— Emem Okon, Indigenous Commons Guardian, Kebetkache Women of the Niger Delta