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ALL ARE WELCOME TO LEARN ABOUT OUR MISSION AND VISION FOR THE FUTURE, AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO OUR EVENTS.

To find out who we are please click here. To see what we're doing, please read through the sections below, or check out our more comprehensive calendar here. You will see this message until you create an account and login.

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After the Harvest

As the blustery winds of autumn blew in much-needed rain over the weekend, RED hosted our annual fall event on Saturday, October 23. Our Native Harvest Gathering was a day of hands-on activities in food processing and a celebration of the harvest. Our two main projects were corn grinding and acorn processing. People attending were able to see all the phases of these indigenous foods being processed--from the shucking of the corn to the milling of it, and then sifting and making the corn meal for breads.

Native Harvest Gathering

You are invited to our annual Native Harvest Gathering Saturday, October 23, starting at 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the SOU Student Family Housing Community Room, 1361 Quincy Street in Ashland. Our Feast will be served at 4 p.m.. Please see the calendar above for more details.

News from the R.E.D. Community Garden

Greetings R.E.D. Community,

We have great news to give you about the R.E.D. Community Garden. . .it is growing in abundance, promising to yield another healthy crop of the Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash) again this year.

Ways to support the community, purchasing Uncle Eddie's book.

Would like to promote Uncle Eddie's book one more time through our website

A Opchine WaLa Ohkon
Dreaming of a True World

Stories, Poems, Memories by Ed Little Crow

Ed LIttle Crow website: www.littlecrowpoems.blogspot.com
Ed LIttle Crow BOOK ORDERING INFO: https://www.createspace.com/3403440

Either way, its a great book and we are proud to have Uncle in our community and would like to support him and his publisher's effort in any way we can.

2010 Elder~Youth Reflections

Earlier in June marked our 5th Annual Elder~Youth Conference at EarthTeach Forest Park. After another amazing Elder~Youth experience, we are breathing that quiet air of accomplishment and happiness as we reflect on the things learned and taught during this camp. Each of the four days of the Conference encompassed different teachings, all of which culminated in a true feeling of a working, living encampment. We once again hosted our "cousin-youth group" from Coos Bay--the Title VII (Indian Education) program through the Coos School District.

McKenzie River Gathering Foundation

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McKenzie River Gathering (MRG) Foundation has graciously awarded Red Earth Descendants/NOWIA grant funds for the coming year to help support the four annual projects/events we sponsor--Elder~Youth Conference, Native Harvest Gathering, Storytelling Conference and Native Games. We are pleased to announce our appreciation and welcome to MRG as a very generous friend of R.E.D. and our community.

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As our R.E.D. inter-tribal community grows and we begin to reach out from a grassroots perspective, we value being able to collaborate with other groups serving their communities in similar ways. MRG supports groups who identify root causes of injustice and who organize in their communities to fundamentally change these conditions. We are honored that MGR has selected our R.E.D. community to help bring awareness and change in supporting this universal vision. As a Native-based, inter-tribal organization, R.E.D. has continually been committed to breaking down walls of prejudice and racial barriers since its inception five years ago, placing our strength and value on uniting all races of people, and with the help of Foundations like MRG, we are being mentored and supported to continue this work on a broader scale.

R.E.D.'s Elder~Youth Conference, 2010

We invite you to our 5th Annual Elder~Youth Conference, June 17-20 at EarthTeach Forest Park. Our Elder~Youth camp is a family-oriented event that allows our community to camp-out together for four days in the beautiful Southern Oregon mountains east of Ashland. We join children, youth and elders in the old, traditional way of "being a tribal village together."

This year we look forward to more teachings from elders and tribal representatives who carry traditional knowledge. Our itinerary looks something like this:

R.E.D.'s Community Garden is PLANTED and GROWING!

Red Earth Descendants invites you to participate in our community garden once again this year. After a hugely successful harvest last year, we are inspired to keep growing the "Three Sisters" (corn, beans and squash) together. We will use this spot on our website to keep you updated about work parties, ways you can help, who to contact if you have questions, etc..

Trading Post Updates

Greetings,

Through careful deliberation we have decided as a RED community that our Trading Post will honor Healers and medicine oriented practices under the category of "Traditional Healing Methods." A Traditional Healing Method is a practice or art form of medicine that comes from one of the four directions or four medicine bundles. This could otherwise be called a "Lineage." We are encouraging all who fall into new-age, hybridized categories to add their businesses to the Sustainable Wellness Guide or to the Webspirit Community, as the audiences there are more receptive to this kind of business.

We also want to make it clear that listings should not sell ceremonies of any kind, as we believe ceremony should not be advertised or sold.

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