Roxanne Swentzell: Pueblo Culture and Food Experience: Planting Life 2022 (5 of 10)

Roxanne Swentzell talks about her life as a sculptor, grandmother, and president of Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute in the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico. The Pueblo people have survived in northern New Mexico for thousands of years by caring for each other and the environment around them. Roxanne wants us to know that if we don’t care for the environment we’re in, it won’t care for us. Roxanne also tells us what it was like to grow up in two worlds, with a father of German descent who was a professor Western philosophy, and a mother born in the pueblo who was a world-renowned writer on Pueblo perspectives. She shares what it was like to have a severe speech impediment as a child and how she learned to “talk through clay,” sculpting clay figurines in order to communicate to her mother. You’ll also learn about Roxanne’s philosophy of “matching food with people through ancestral connections” as she encourages all of us to rediscover the food of our respective ancestors. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by clicking here. For Program/Series description and to access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: Planting Life 2022