The Grand Entry of the 2025 Annual Powwow at Stanford University (Muwekma Ohlone ancestral lands) featured an invocation and introduction, the Intertribals, the Second Round Dance Competition—Men, and the Third Round Drum Contest.
The mainstream defines poverty in terms of low income, advocating for interventions that increase monetary livelihoods. Conversely, FiveBecomings’ approach to alleviate poverty is to enable communities to themselves fulfill their basic needs by restoring their ecosymbiotic self-reliance, thus bypassing money.
Chef Green talks about how he’s helping to revitalize the food scene in West Oakland through his own blended culinary style, including tacos and fried fish, which draws clients from across the San Francisco Bay Area (California, United States).
The Sustainable Development Goals provide a shared vocabulary and measurable targets that partially illuminate the impact of FiveBecomings projects, yet these must be reinterpreted through ecosymbiotic self-reliance, relational wellbeing, and community sovereignty beyond extractivist models of ‘development’.
Oscar-nominated filmmakers, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emilly Kassie, talk about the substantive issues explored in their latest documentary, Sugarcane, including the genocide of Indigenous peoples in North America, Canadian residential schools, European colonialism, and their hopes for their film’s impact.
Mary Curtis Ratcliff talks about some of her adventures as one of the pioneers of the video collective, Videofreex, which documented the counterculture in the United States from 1969 to 1978, covering protests, movements, and music festivals.
In this four-part interview, Satish Kumar shares his views on peace, our relationship with nature, and what led him to found Schumacher College in 1991. Among those who inspire him are Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, and E.F. Schumacher.
For many, trauma does not stem from isolated incidents like assault or loss. Instead, it is rooted in their surroundings — social injustices, systemic racism, and environmental hazards that oppress entire communities. This form of trauma reveals not individual fragility but fundamental flaws within our societal structures.
India's Hasdeo Aranya forests have witnessed an intense struggle by ecoweb-rooted (tribal) communities to protect natural resources, as well as their lives, livelihoods, and cultural identities. Their movement's victory has secured a large portion as an elephant reserve; However, threats of deforestation still exist.
Little Bear shares how, in the foster system, he was told he was “white” and forbidden from asking questions about his identity, which was first revealed to him in prison, where being in a sweat lodge transformed his life.
Gayle “Asali” Dickson shares what moved her to become a minister after leaving the Black Panther Party (BPP); in her ministry she preached community and caring for each other, much like what she learned from the BPP.
Bill Weber talks about the history of the family of his maternal great-grandmother, whose great-grandfather was Luis Maria Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Empire’s army, who was granted almost 45,000 acres of land in the San Francisco East Bay.
As a European-American woman, Mary Curtis Ratcliff describes her evolving understanding of the Indigenous peoples of the United States and how her meeting Chief Leonard Crow Dog in the 1970s transformed her own way of living and being.
Born in East Oakland, California, Kelvin Curry talks about his journey as an artist from his childhood in the 1970s to now, especially how his art is influenced by his upbringing and experience as a black man in the US.
