Water Wednesdays Series: An Indigenous World View w/Ricky DeFoe (Recording)
THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED ON MARCH 23, 2022: https://youtu.be/Z1hv0NcXCxw
Join the St. Louis River Alliance as we welcome Ricky DeFoe for our first installment of 'Water Wednesdays', a series of talks and events revolving around deepening understandings, connections, and stewardship of the land and our beloved River. Water Wednesdays will be held the 4th Wednesday of each month, March-September 2022.
During 'An Indigenous World View', Ricky discussed cosmology, philosophy, and values and actions that lead to institutions, and the challenges to re-spiritualize a de-spiritualized community. He also brought to light barriers to collective change in worldviews.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
Ricky is a Graduate of a Federal Indian Boarding School, attended Flandreau Indian School in Flandreau, S.D., and served in the United States Army National Guard. He is a retired Union Journeyman Ironworker, a Pipe Carrier and Sweat Lodge Keeper, and a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Minnesota Chippewa. He traveled to Honduras with Witness for Peace to observe firsthand the devastating effects of U.S. Foreign Policy on Indigenous Peoples and marginalized groups.
Ricky has volunteered and brought the Ojibwe Language and Culture into the Arrowhead Juvenile Center, the Northeast Regional Correctional Center, the St. Louis County Jail, and into the Hospitals and Hospices in the community. He currently works as a Language and Curriculum Specialist within Fond du Lac Reservation's Ojibwe Language Revitalization Program.
