Talking Water
Talking Water is an offering by Walking Water ...
Walking Water, born from a vision received in Payahuunadü - "the place where the water flows" on the ancestral homelands of the Paiute-Shoshone people - is a project and a prayer that centers water as teacher, guide, and sacred source.
We began as a three-year pilgrimage along the natural and human-made waterways between Mono Lake and Los Angeles, CA, partnering with local and global communities to collectively bear witness to the situation of water in our world. Following the path of water from source to end-user, we witnessed histories and current realities of destruction, violence, harm and extraction. Alongside the stories of grief, we celebrated those of beauty and resilience - possibilities for the healing and regeneration of waters, landscapes, and communities.
We continue to listen to the guidance and orientation of water, for how Walking Water might serve as one tributary within a global and intergenerational movement to restore relations with waters, lands and peoples. We move with the question: what world is possible if human beings devote themselves - personally, politically, spiritually - to that which gives life? We understand how essential it is for us to recognize and honor the leadership of Indigenous peoples and communities of color who have been protecting the waters and the lands from extraction and exploitation for hundreds of years -whose life ways, languages and cultures offer profound teachings for how to grow into right relationship.
A commitment to healing waters asks each of us to find our role in movements that struggle to dismantle oppressive systems that commodify waters, lands and peoples in pursuit of power and profit. And as we carry the dream of justice for waters and peoples alike, we strive to uplift and support those individuals and communities who are "acupuncture points" of healing and possibility, actively living towards that more beautiful and liberated world.
For more info go to: https://walking-water.org
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Walking Water is a fiscally sponsored project of Weaving Earth
Banner photo by Teena Pugliese
Talking Water
with Lake to Lake Team
“The walks have been such a good movement. We’ve made a lot of progress. The walks have been a really good bridge for bringing people together and for us being able to share and connect and help people be more aware. It’s helped us at the tribal level for getting support behind the work and the things we’re needing to do and we do on a daily basis.” – Teri Red Owl, Executive Director, Owens Valley Indian Water Commission
Join us in the circle of community with the Lake to Lake team, our partners, and walkers. In this rich conversation, we hear reflections about the walks from 10 years ago in acknowledgement of the original journey, and we hear visions for the walks to come this September. We will be retracing our path from Mono Lake to Owens Lake/Patsiata as a coalition carrying intentions and prayers for restoring right relationship to water in Owens Valley/Payahuunadü
Our partners Teri Red Owl and Kyndall Noah (Owens Valley Indian Water Commission), Kathy Bancroft (Elder of the Lone Pine Paiute Tribe), and Charlotte Lange (Mono Lake Kootzaduka'a Tribe), talk about the current situation with Los Angeles DWP and the work that has grown since the first walks.
We also hear from the Walking Water Lake to Lake team and other walkers, adding their voices to a vision of restoring our relationship with the lands and waters.
Hosted by: Kate Bunney
Produced & edited by: Anne Carol Mitchell
Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss
If you feel inspired by Talking Water please consider a donation - our work relies on the community. You can donate here. https://walking-water.org/donate/
For more info go to Walking Water website. https://walking-water.org/
