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In Tilantongo – Conversations from Indigenous Mexico; Conversaciones desde el México indigena, Phil and Kathy Dahl-Bredine bring perspectives and insights from Oaxaca, where they have lived with and learned from indigenous Mixtec people since 2001. This bilingual program features interviews with villagers, educators, environmental advocates, historians, and more. In Tilantongo program 2 for 2023, Mixtec campesinos Berta Santiago and Agustin Leon Santos discuss technology. Ironically, they point out, indigenous campesinos here still […]

In Program 1 for 2023, Mixtec Culture, Lifestyles, and Values, Mixtec leader Eliseo Reyes Miguel returns to our Tilantongo conversations, probing more deeply into the communal language and thought that make this civilization, its ways of life, and its values so different from those of our Western civilization in crisis.  https://gmcr.org/prog/kindred%20continuum/tilantongo/kindred%20continuum%20230327%20tilantongo%20ep%208.mp3

Students from GW Stout (and an alumna) come to the table for a lively discussion about their fourth grade gardening program.  Facilitated by fourth grade teacher Julie Dunning-Farmer and County Commissioner Alicia Edwards, these students detail their gardening adventures, from breaking up asphalt seven years ago to cultivate their school property, to making salsa and pumpkin pies from their harvests.  As they discuss the evolution of their garden plots and […]