Category: Glossary

An older form of organizing lineages, before the so-called Sky God religions, matrilineality is practiced today by a wide range of cultures across the planet and in the United States by most eastern native American tribes and many others throughout the Americas.

Matrilineally endows children with the family name and lineage, clan, heirlooms, religious practices and duties, as well as property through the maternal line rather than the paternal. Matrilineally, as practiced today by the Haudenausaunee/Iroquois tribes, produces gender equity and balance, while recognizing the relative strengths of each gender. Patrilineality, that is counting one’s lineage through the paternal line, a unreliable way of accurately accounting for bloodlines, appears to have produced a high degree of inequity among peoples throughout the world.

Another Peter Berg coined term, meaning a creative act of discovery and restoration, doing the work to establish a way-of—|ive in place. that may be half invented from the creative genius of the community aligned with the characteristics of the watershed, and half taken from both indigenous people who hold that ancient relationship with place, and the evolution of the human species to generate a sustainable way-of-life in a particular place.

the nameless followers of Ned Ludd, a fictional character who resists the use of fossil fuels to power machines and the disruption of the community by the factory model.

a drainage area of forest, plains, wetlands, desert, where humans establish a way-of-life based on the characteristics of the watershed and interconnected with other species.