11/13/2020 Foundry Giving Friday: Honor The Earth
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Every Friday The Foundry Home Goods donates 5% of our total sales to a different community-nominated small-and-mighty cause. This Friday's Foundry Giving Friday recipient? Honor The Earth!
"Let us put our minds together to see what kind of future we can make for our children"- Sitting Bull
Honor The Earth is a national Indigenous-led Native mission working to raise awareness and direct funds to grassroots Native environmental groups. They are the only Native organization that provides both financial support and organizing support to Native environmental initiatives. This model is based on strategic analysis of what is needed to forge change in Indian country, and it is based deep in their communities, histories, and long-term struggles to protect the earth. They say it best:
In our Anishinaabe prophecies, this is called the time of the Seventh Fire. This is a time when our people will have two roads ahead of us - one miikina, or path, which is well-worn - but scorched - and another path which is green. It will be our choice upon which path to embark. That is where we are.
Honor the Earth uses indigenous wisdom, music, art, and the media to raise awareness and support for Indigenous Environmental Issues. They leverage this awareness and support to develop financial and political capital for Indigenous struggles for land and life.
This season of gratitude and abundance is also the perfect time for revisiting our bone-deep cultural commitment to revisionist history. Thankfulness is a blessing and with it comes the power to re-write and re-right the violence and destruction of manifest destiny. Which, of course, starts with healing the land and giving it back, turning systems of conquest back into systems based on just relationships with each other and with the natural world. Simple as that. See more @honortheearth.
We are pleased and proud to support this necessary work this Foundry Giving Friday! If you don't need anything from us, consider donating directly If you DO find yourself in need of beeswax or bulk supplies, know that your purchase goes to support good change happening on the community level.
If YOU have a worthy cause to nominate for our Foundry Giving Friday initiative, pop on over to our Nomination Page and drop us a line. We're all in this together.
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