Native Land Digital App
A free app ever-evolving and resulting from a vast community effort led by an indigenous-led not-for-profit organization in Canada, this app allows you to enter an address/location and identify and learn more about the native people and tribal nations upon whose traditional/ancestral territory that address or location exists (mostly currently available for locations in North America, Australia and parts of South America):
More on the app: https://native-land.ca/mobile-app/
More on the on the organization that is behind the app: https://native-land.ca
The ancestors on whose unceded territory I currently live and work in Central Texas and benefit from as a result of colonization, include the Tonkawa, Comanche, and Lipan Apache Peoples. Please take some time to click on the links below to learn more about these vital and self-sovereign tribes/nations:
Tonkawa Tribe: http://www.tonkawatribe.com
Comanche Nation: https://comanchenation.com
Lipan Apache Tribe: https://lipanapache.org/
“Beyond the Illusion” Podcast Interview
For more about my journey and the work with the ancestors that I am so passionate about (recorded under my previous name and Shamanic Practice), please check out my recent podcast interview on Tim Howe and Tianna Roser’s “Beyond the Illusion” podcast:
https://www.beyondtheillusionpodcast.com/episodes/s3-ep-4-opening-to-ancestors-with-heather-davies
Journey Drumming Track
For those in my ancestors’ groups or for anyone else for whom it is helpful to have a steady drumming track for journeying, here is 8-9 min track to help support your process. I have found that you get the best sense of the reverberation of the drum if you use headphones when listening:
http://seawyndaustin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Journey-drumming-track-32420-4.41-PM.mp3
Let Us Find Ground
As I have been playing with ways to touch back into ground amidst the waves of emotion that ebb and flow around and throughout this pandemic experience, I often find that sound and rhythm are super helpful tools for me in this. This simple song came through for me earlier this week (I’m writing this on 3/20/20) and I thought I would share it here in the event that others may find it helpful as a bit of an anchor as well.
A fairly rough GarageBand recording of it can be found here (with a cameo audio appearance by my elder cat, Inky):
http://seawyndaustin.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Let-Us-Find-Ground-3_15_20-1.06-PM.m4a
And here are the lyrics:
Let Us Find Ground
by Eamon W. Davies
Let us find ground
Wherever we roam.
Let us find ground
Whether tucked in our beds or so far from home.
Let us find ground
Come near or come far.
Let us find ground
In ourselves and each other wherever we are.
Let us find ground
Where we sit, lay or stand
Let us find ground
With the beings and wisdom that dwell in the land.
Let us find ground
Sinking deep with our roots
Let us find ground
As we slow and we feel into our deeper truths.