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Holistic Solutions Think Tank Ideas, Native American Precedent and Involvement in a Reconstruction Era to Address Climate Change, Globalization and Gridlock, at Home and Abroad
Native American Talking Points from researches over the years
by Yasha Husain, Director
December 5, 2013
Some highlights of common environmental talking points, rediscovered on a cross-country road trip in 2005, crossing the south and north of the USA:
As I drove, and stopped along the way to ask important questions about environmental conditions in the various localities I came across, I discovered regarding the environment and our infrastructure, in addition to what I learned in the same and related querying, about the Native American past and present, the following “news” that continues to hold merit for a dawning of a Reconstruction Era to address climate change, globalization and gridlock:
Firstly, and generally, environmentally, and socio-culturally, key pointers, or talking points, for the insight upon which we can build our nation and world, that we may have in our archives, but don't fully utilize, relating to addressing the big or larger picture of change that is required to create a truly holistic infrastructure, which allows communities, also, room to breathe and cause their own development schemes to unfold, guided by universals and “guiding principles”…An addition to the literature for the proposed Holistic Solutions Think Tank Reconstruction Department:
Microbiology, and bio-genetics, might not be commiserate with natural sciences.
Cattle ranches should adhere to tradition and yet be properly, proportionately, merged to the cause and triumph of modern environmental and international dietary standards.
Communities in the Northwest are reliant on large dams for energy, which is on a continual basis, bad for fish, and as per the Native American fishing traditions.
In the Midwest, neighborhoods continue, in the modern era, to be affected by polluting industries that are all to nearby farming communities, which are traditional or old-school American communities, however not amenable to synthetic toxins or pollutants – I witnessed there real-life stories in this vein, otherwise also documented about Montana, by Jared Diamond.
Pollution in lakes and water streams is from chemical farming in the Midwest.
Farming equipment for sale is highly expensive and very large, not typically suited to medium and small-sized farmers, who increasingly lose their farms to larger, industrial farmers, and also because farmer's children leave the farm for the city.
In the Midwest, farmers experience problems selling goods like sugar beets and cane, and other farm products from the Midwest, too, have difficulty selling nationwide because of a glut in the market.
Wind energy might better be regional, and used more intensely for the Midwest, along with the purpose of solar energy, than spread out from the Midwest to far stretches of the country, requiring a loss of energy during transport, and longer lines that might be downed, from storms. Not to mention, local and regional economies would inadvertently remain more profitable with distributed energy outlets that are local as well as regional.
Caulking is probably not necessary with synthetic adhesives that cause irritation, sensitivity or pollution or decay.
The Treasure of the Native American Community of Our Country:
In Northern California -
The tradition and legacy of Indian chiefs, leadership, traditions, matriarchy, should have staying power.
Casinos and their benefits to the community are offset by leaders of the same Native American community disembarking for Canada, in 2005, to attend United Nations indigenous committee talks to try to press their needs/wants. The same patriots referred to their long family trees and lineages and how, however, only a certain percentage of their people are considered Native American by the American census, which is based on the percentage a person is identified to have of Native American ancestry.
These meetings took place in the Era, in the early 21st century, when Americans were trying to retrieve artifacts from arts institutions and return them to their Native American creators and makers.
In Washington State -
Schools that are Native American, are teaching Native American languages, and therefore elements of the cultural past, in addition to a modern education. Too few teachers can teach the traditional language or languages, perhaps versus the number who could teach the peoples' cultural traditions, at length, though language should remain a framework and habit, or abode, like Sanskrit in India.
Hanford, WA: farmers on Native American reservations/communities, growing things like hops, are adjacent still to Hanford, the nuclear site, where the river water aside the Hanford Site continues to be known to be polluted. It's too common, it would seem, Native American communities are located near, what might be called, future brown sites.
Universally -
Farmers of Native American communities forced to find casinos a more lucrative trade used to make decent money from farming cattle, in addition to what they would also farm, squash, corn, strawberries, and herbs, etc.
We also learn from how Native American tradition even features the art of working together.
As well, Native Americans have used all-natural building techniques for the consideration of architectural legacy and prototypes, going forward.
In the Southeast -
In the Southeast, from where Sequoyah's Cherokee Indian Tribe, and the other Indian peoples there, ventured Westward, on the Trail of Tears, from the Appalachians to what would become Oklahoma Territory, repatriated communities have sought, in recent years, reforms for greener communities, as willing pioneers in the trade or burgeoning field of redevelopment or reconstruction, seemingly, with the heart and spirit of the Chinese who, this century, have hired people like green architect William McDonough, and other international architects, to build from scratch whole new cities that run on solar and alternative energy. However, in the Southeast, there would typically not be building from scratch, but a remarkable effort in redevelopment, to address global warming.
HSTT Results from the Concurrence of Ideas Listed Here for Continued Sharing of Traditional Wisdom, and Withheld, by the think tank's Director:
We should incorporate better the wisdom, traditions and work of the Native American communities, and their efforts to protect the environment everywhere, N, S, E and W, into the modern, American landscape – creating a spirit that is more reflective of the spirit of One and Equality – that utilizes the knowledge brought forth in the think tank Director's book, The New Village: Finding Holistic Solutions (which suggests we merge the wisdom of our ancient past with and into our present history), and that fully incorporates Native Americans, equal in status and stature, into the fabric of modern America, and the modern world, therefore, a definitive, helpful, integrated part of the whole, which is a sum larger than its parts.
Now, utilizing things like a Redevelopment of Cities and Rural Areas Authority (RCRA) Act, and writings of HSTT, too, specifically, too, on the needs of Native American communities, which would provide choice, financial support and relief, and a flowering of the wisdom of all people, N, S, E, W, in the nation, and in the world, and via the power of One, we may opt to adopt the HSTT Reconstruction Department in good faith, hopefully as a tool to do this, so that we have comprehensive and also prototype communities to build (for example, with the construction of the foreshadowed “closed, holistic system” national grid with locally distributed, “closed, holistic systems,” energy lines).
This should hopefully be done vis-a-vis attention to, as well, the HSTT Economic Notes, empowering world peoples and regions, to empower themselves with the blueprints of and for the world. Not via management, but aid and help, that simply involves people being their own best leaders: homegrown leadership and homegrown profits, albeit with minimalist, central governance remaining a stabilizing factor, and co-producer of guiding principles, for those who concur with them.
The HSTT Reconstruction Department Wings 29 and 30, Global Participation and Development, might merely require a handful of aid experts, from one or multiple countries, to communique with nations, one-on-one, as support units for personal and national growth everywhere. The people of the world have tremendous and stupendous knowledge, from ancient and modern times, and can manage themselves, and using diplomatic and ambassadorial relationships between nations and peoples that inspire each community's, nation's, and their leadership circles, to have “closed, holistic systems,” or holistic solutions, they derive, spawn, and derive again, with the feedback of the plenty (democracy), create, enjoy, and have, and to share, as all development should, by way of common sense, be based on sharing the knowledge of all time.
(The Director's first four books in her series about holism and the universals, accented by her fifth nonfiction book, American Determinism: Holistic Politics, The Adoption of “Closed, Holistic Systems”: Letting the truth unfold for invention, innovation and sustainable progress, by way of politics, describes how people of all seven continents, and hopefully the nine regions of the world, reorganized as the reformed UN Security Council (see, from the series, The Modern Roots of Holism), which would seek consensus with a majority vote, are the harbingers of and for the communications roundtable, nonviolence mediation and invention.)
However, there will be inherent rights, for example, that I created the Pivot System, though for it to be able to be used universally, like a Reconstruction Department, that is adopted and adapted, at will, to a person or peoples' individual life and livelihood, and I should not dictate how my invention or write-up shall be expanded upon, utilized, or seek disproportionate profits from it, it should be open source, and other than it should be used democratically, and adopted and adapted, at will, only democratically – also known as, invention, for the holistic, shared worldview. The wisdom of our forefathers, however, merits respect, and this must be built into the one-on-one relationships of the Reconstruction Department at their inception, referring, too, in this instance, specifically to development dollars needed, and simply factored in, as per the unfolding of this Department's goal to maintain the one world conceptualization of peace and harmony. This is incidentally, in a timely sense, also in order to explain and justify the need to not shortchange and to change our current global economic model that works from comparative advantage and not the shared worldview that is holistic and democratic, first, which enshrines our economy.
Yasha Melanie Husain. Copyright 2013-14.