Comments on: How Indigenous Land-Use Practices relate to Community Land Trusts & The Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-indigenous-land-use-practices-relate-to-community-land-trusts-the-commons/2017/11/13 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 14 May 2021 15:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Douglas Jack https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-indigenous-land-use-practices-relate-to-community-land-trusts-the-commons/2017/11/13/comment-page-1#comment-1580573 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:59:03 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=68546#comment-1580573 Good article with the important focus upon ownership as a set of community economic-social contracts, which enable people to channel their contributions in relations. ‘Indigenous’ (Latin ‘self-generating’) practices of belonging/ownership/recognition & decision-making rights by all humanity’s worldwide ancestors & 1st Nations involve many practices, which rationalize & enable the relationship between ‘community’ (Latin ‘com’ = ‘together’ + ‘munus’ = ‘gift-or-services’) ownership & Land-trusts CLT of this article. There is a Circle-of-Life, which indigenous peoples on every continent & island of the world remember as an interdisciplinary intergenerational guide to the culture of wholeness we seek. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/home/indigenous-circle-of-life

#1 Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes organized around ~100 people living in critical-mass, economies-of-scale, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village with privacy & proximity. 70% of worldwide populations today live in multihomes, yet without knowing how to animate their own labour, knowledge, talents, dreams, goods, resources & proximity together. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/extending-our-welcome-participatory-multi-home-cohousing
#2 Specialized Production-Society-Guilds grouped together contributors & areas of expertise into progressive-ownership across the course of one’s lifetime. In effect those invested members of each P-S-G responsibly stewarded common resources for the public good. Members voted with their string-shell. Indigenous peoples were more of an ownership society than today’s top-down colonial oligarch owned economies & their ‘selection’ of our political leaders (What a farce!). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
#3 String-shell accounting, acknowledgement for all multistakeholder contributions through use of the String-shell record-keeping by specialized accountant-record-keepers. Examples are Wampum used under many national names & according to its diverse functions on Turtle-Island (North-America), Quipu in South-America & worldwide the Cowrie-shell used on all other continents & islands. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy

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