*This was a session at the [Shiny Green Acorn Festival](/Shiny_Green_Acorn_Festival).*
### Participants
- A woman from the project (convener)
- [Brandon](/Brandon)
- [Shelley](/Shelley)
- [Eric](/Eric)
- Michelle
- [Ben](/Ben)
### Discussion
What [Awakening the Horse People](http://awakeningthehorse.wordpress.com) does
- Work with European-descended people to help them learn their original cultures
- Where knowledge has been “lost,” go to ancestral places and listen to the Earth and animals, which store the knowledge
- But you have to learn from indigenes how to do it, because Europeans have been separated from place and traumatized for thousands of years
- Work with ecovillages to start a movement to return land to indigenous peoples
- Looking for temporary membership at Tryon to work on this
Response to SolSeed
- Please make a plan for how your ecovillage will be in right relationship with the native people of the place
- Have you asked Gaia whether she wants to give birth?
- Eric: Yes, and received the answer that she very much does
- Ben later asked Eric what he meant, and he said he found this answer in reading about geological history
- Western culture has a pattern of saying “we have the right way, let’s spread it everywhere”
- Other planets have their own spirits and dreams for what they want to become
- Do you have an analysis of white privilege?
- Ben: We're working on it