Chief Speaking at TEDx Redding and Forest Forum in February
The Winnemem Wintu’s Spiritual Leader and Tribal Chief Caleen Sisk-Franco will be speaking about indigenous knowledge and conservation at two upcoming events in Redding.
1. From 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, Caleen will be one of six featured speakers at TEDx Redding, a local version of the international TED conference that draws writers, artists, engineers, scientists and many others who have “ideas worth spreading.”
Tickets for the live venue at Old City Hall have sold out, though a number were reserved for American Indian community members. During the event, the TEDx organizers will also show the talks on live streaming video at Shasta College Downtown. Free tickets to that venue can be reserved here – http://tedxredding.eventbrite.com/.
Caleen on TEDx:
Our hearts are together with the salmon, so we speak the words that come for them. We have made a promise to them for the gift of voice and for our ability to communicate in this world in so many ways. Salmon is our direct connection to Olebis (Creator). I will do my best to do say the words for our water filled mountains to the Ocean where the Nur (salmon) follow the rivers to get to the high mountain tributaries as it was supposed to be!
2. 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, Caleen will be part of a panel discussion at the Forum for the Forests at First United Methodist Church. Scheduled to coincide with the annual logging conference, the organizers of the Forum hope to shed light on the destructive practice of clear-cutting.
The forum is free to attend and open to all interested members of the public. For more information visit the Forum’s Facebook Event page.
Caleen says that healthy forests are vital to a clean and productive watershed:
The forest “managers” don’t see any of the relationships or understand that all those things together from the trees to the beaver make a watershed. Their practice is to cut the biggest trees, and the biggest trees are the ones that bring the most water to the surface. So, of course, there’s going to be less water.
The disregard and destruction of the forest makes the forests unable to hold water.
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