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UnitedStatesVsWhitePlume

UnitedStatesVsWhitePlume

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Corrina McFarlane

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Corrina McFarlane

Corrina McFarlane

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United States vs White Plume

THROUGH A SANTA CRUZ LENS:

Academic Year 2022
and we made a 'lapbook' trifold scrapbook project to tell the incredible story of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Lakota White Plume 'Tiyospaye' being inspired to grow industrial hemp on their Treaty Lands in South Dakota. This would never have happened but that Alex White Plume was serving in the U.S. Army in Germany and was amazed to discover that Germany had a thriving industrial Hemp Industry. He had the inspiration right then, that he could bring that model home for his People on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, recognized as one of most depressed economies, one of the poorest counties in the whole of the USA.

He had no idea back then, at the turn of the 21st Century, what he would be stepping into, in relation to the United States federal government stance on industrial hemp [enforced oddly by the DEA Drug Enforcement Agency]. He was soon to discover that there were highly politicized, historically complex policies that had kept up a Hemp Prohibition in this nation, pretty much since Henry Ford's stronger-than-steel hemp car body made its debut in 1941 and never made it, due to Hemp Prohibition. Alex White Plume was soon to find out how powerful industry lobbyists could be, swaying federal policy and then having that policy enforced enforce through years and decades despite the stark evidence that the demonization of industial hemp was always driven by powerful vested interests in the USA.

Our lapbook project this year ultimately inspired us to see if we could make a litle book—it's small and 40 pages—which has been amazing to craft, weaving together the multi-faceted shape of our lived-lives— through a Santa Cruz lens—reflecting all the threads on the loom of what is emerging, for our children and the children yet to be born.

"We Are Our Grandmother's Prayers,             
We Are our Grandfather's Dreaming..
We Are the Breath of the Ancestors.."
*°•°•°•°•°*

The book is complete!


In the end we were faced with a choice to print full color or black & white.

Of course we want full color but that is super-pricey per copy (with 10-book minimum, then modest price breaks after that).

So we had this idea to do a Crowdfunder whereby a $60 PERK actually gets you a full color book for not much more than the price it cost plus shipping, with a little cushion so that there is some pennies left for our 'Leprechaun pot' which serves to fund all kinds of amazing educational field trips throughout the school year.

 

Fundraiser Updates (5)

February 04, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

We have passed the cross-quarter of the year.
The Green Comet has come and gone {watch for it again in approximately 50,000 years}. Rhiannon has perfected her signature for autographing books and honored Grandpa Alex White Plume with her carefully hand-scribed note. Such deep snowfall on Pine Ridge this Winter (you may have even caught that on national news), that he couldn't get his truck out to the post office until some serious thawing has happened.. but we know the book is sitting there.

All donor books have now been delivered; should be in hand or arrival imminent, unless we don't yet have an address for you... Memorable Winter animal sightings or signs of animals included Skunk, a juvenile Hawk {breathtakingly came to land close by us as we sat on the sidewalk eating an orange, a snack after Rhiannon's school program at Shoreline campus this past week).., and mystery horse manure on the harbor bridge (a first and exciting in its own right!). 

And for animal sounds(!!!), the tumultuous cacophony of frogs in Arana Gulch, the waterway and common land at the head of Santa Cruz harbor, after the heavens had cried-me-a-river, was off-the-charts phenomenal. As eco-architect Bioneer Bill McDonough would comment, they come from seemingly nowhere when conditions are favorable. 

I like that metaphor.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

This book has been a rosy Winter Journey, for both of us. Watching a 13 year old grow in confidence and grace is a treasure beyond measure.

Thank You Thank You Thank You to each of you who played a part. The Crowdfunder will remain live, since we can, but I will no longer be proactively posting. Maybe we'll say hello on Spring Equinox!

January 18, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

As my old Scottish Dad would say "The best laid plans o' mice an' men gang oft' awry." 

*This is to update our update*

We never shipped on Saturday.., then it was Sunday..., then it was Martin Luther King Day (no post office).. Then today; one single book shipped, which we thought was pretty much Ceremonial, because it was to Grandpa Alex White Plume, the champion of our Tale. We hadn't quite planned it that way but it seemed perfectly fitting how it played out.

Then we finished off after school before dark, hand-delivering on our bicycles, local deliveries to those who were home.

There were several factors that stretched the task, including that we didn't realize that shipping addresses are not collected from donors so we've been slowly checking up on all of those. But also that it was only fair to have Rhiannon pace herself with all the scribing, each book {wore out her hand!}, not to mention that bunch of TOADS she did {each of which was carefully crafted and shaded}.  All of this to say that we did not render this into any kind of onerous task when it turned out to ask more of us than we had first imagined. We just went on our wending way.

 SANTA CRUZ in the WORLD NEWS.. {last thing}; About that 'Atmospheric River,' meaning, someone just dumped the equivalent of 15x the Mississippi River on our home-town...

{Atmospheric rivers can carry up to 15 times the volume of the Mississippi River, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They appear as a trail of wispy clouds that can stretch for hundreds of miles}.

This morning we cycled the five miles on our tandem between the two houses, from Rhiannon's Auntie's house to ours. Our route takes us high up along the cliff looking out across the the wide blue Ocean, across the Monterey Bay, to the South. The Ocean was such a silky, glistening breathless blue. I exclaimed, "Look at it! How could it be so tranquil after what it just did. It's such a bad boy..... Oh..., I know.., it's a Woman."

 

January 14, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

Update from
*TOAD*
Turn On A Dime Academy

FYI this was our Friday!
The books arrived and a funny thing happened; we discovered we'd inadvertently made a formatting error with one word, because the book software didn't flag that there was a problem. You'll find it on the second page of the book, where we had designed it to say;

Turn On A Dime Academy
TOAD

Except, we put the word "TOAD" in the middle of chevrons like this:

<<< TOAD >>>

Which the software seemed to accept but when the printed books came, it came out like this;

&lt; &lt; &gt; &gt;

So Rhiannon and I went through every book today and she drew a picture of a Toad and I wrote the word 'Toad!'

There you have it! The latest from our Santa Cruz printshop, with another terrific 'cyclone bomb' storm lurking just offshore... This is turning into one utterly memorable Winter.

*~* Feeling Thankful *~*

 

January 11, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

Quick update here. Happy to say, first batch of books should be shipping to early donors next weekend, Saturday January 14th.
✦¸¸.*'¯`✦* 202​​3​*'¯`✦​✦¸¸.*'¯`✦*​'¯`✦ And we now know that this Campaign will complete its proactive phase on February 2nd.

In case you are not familiar beyond American Groundhog Day (!), February 2nd is the ancient Gaelic 'Imbolc'; first cross-quarter of the year, also St Brigid's Day, as well as Feast of Pan, and Festival of Snowdrops.

Imbolc or Imbolg (Irish pronunciation: [ɪˈmˠɔlˠɡ]), also called Saint Brigid's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Bríde; Scottish Gaelic: Là Fhèill Brìghde; Manx: Laa'l Breeshey), a thoroughly Gaelic traditional festival.

Imbolc marks the beginning of Spring. That is to say on February 2nd, we'll be halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox (Northern Hemisphere). Was that fast or what?!

FEBRUARY 2ND -IMBOLC- CAMPAIGN ENDS

January 08, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane
"Did you know you are the mything link?"
•°—Jean Houston in A Passion for the Possible

Having orchestrated our first Crowdfunders back in the 2009-2012 era...
for our 1,000 Hummingbirds Ceremony years
, we already knew that "crowd" isn't exactly the word, because in reality the unfolding of it, the Journey of it, is all so very personal.

In this Now Moment, there's a joy-lift comes with each one who pops through into Here, suddenly Presencing in our space with a spark and a flash, like a little cut-glass crystal ball set in the window to catch the sun at surprising and always welcome Moments... Or.., like a Hummingbird!

"Hover little Hummingbird
Joy is your Medicine
in these dire and beautiful times.."

Our latest donor, from yesterday, did, in their sudden unexpected Arrival into our space, suddenly evoke all the 1,000 Hummingbirds imagery, which doesn't get to see the light of day so much, more than a decade after we completed that Ceremony cycle here on the West Coast.

"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.." [RF]

THIS IS THE AMAZING STORY 
OF OUR LIVES...; ALL OF US! 

from original painting by Christine DeCamp

"We're a River of Birds in Migration..
A Nation of Women with Wings..."

"The 1,000 Hummingbird Council was formed in Ohlone territory;
the San Francisco Bay Area in the Central Coast region of California.
The mandate of the Council is explicit: CLEAN WATER and well-being for all; no exceptions; {“All Our Relations”}"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."  •°—from James Joyce {leaving Ireland}, in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Zachary Weaver

Zachary Weaver

$25 • Recent donation

Caroline Brown

Caroline Brown

$100 • Top donation

Will Mayall

Will Mayall

$60 • First donation

Organizer

Corrina McFarlane

Corrina McFarlane is the organizer of this fundraiser

UnitedStatesVsWhitePlume
Corrina McFarlane

Corrina McFarlane

Santa Cruz, California

Fundraising for

Corrina McFarlane

Fundraising forCorrina McFarlane
Donation protected
👍 0% fee

United States vs White Plume

THROUGH A SANTA CRUZ LENS:

Academic Year 2022
and we made a 'lapbook' trifold scrapbook project to tell the incredible story of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Lakota White Plume 'Tiyospaye' being inspired to grow industrial hemp on their Treaty Lands in South Dakota. This would never have happened but that Alex White Plume was serving in the U.S. Army in Germany and was amazed to discover that Germany had a thriving industrial Hemp Industry. He had the inspiration right then, that he could bring that model home for his People on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, recognized as one of most depressed economies, one of the poorest counties in the whole of the USA.

He had no idea back then, at the turn of the 21st Century, what he would be stepping into, in relation to the United States federal government stance on industrial hemp [enforced oddly by the DEA Drug Enforcement Agency]. He was soon to discover that there were highly politicized, historically complex policies that had kept up a Hemp Prohibition in this nation, pretty much since Henry Ford's stronger-than-steel hemp car body made its debut in 1941 and never made it, due to Hemp Prohibition. Alex White Plume was soon to find out how powerful industry lobbyists could be, swaying federal policy and then having that policy enforced enforce through years and decades despite the stark evidence that the demonization of industial hemp was always driven by powerful vested interests in the USA.

Our lapbook project this year ultimately inspired us to see if we could make a litle book—it's small and 40 pages—which has been amazing to craft, weaving together the multi-faceted shape of our lived-lives— through a Santa Cruz lens—reflecting all the threads on the loom of what is emerging, for our children and the children yet to be born.

"We Are Our Grandmother's Prayers,             
We Are our Grandfather's Dreaming..
We Are the Breath of the Ancestors.."
*°•°•°•°•°*

The book is complete!


In the end we were faced with a choice to print full color or black & white.

Of course we want full color but that is super-pricey per copy (with 10-book minimum, then modest price breaks after that).

So we had this idea to do a Crowdfunder whereby a $60 PERK actually gets you a full color book for not much more than the price it cost plus shipping, with a little cushion so that there is some pennies left for our 'Leprechaun pot' which serves to fund all kinds of amazing educational field trips throughout the school year.

 

Fundraiser Updates (5)

February 04, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

We have passed the cross-quarter of the year.
The Green Comet has come and gone {watch for it again in approximately 50,000 years}. Rhiannon has perfected her signature for autographing books and honored Grandpa Alex White Plume with her carefully hand-scribed note. Such deep snowfall on Pine Ridge this Winter (you may have even caught that on national news), that he couldn't get his truck out to the post office until some serious thawing has happened.. but we know the book is sitting there.

All donor books have now been delivered; should be in hand or arrival imminent, unless we don't yet have an address for you... Memorable Winter animal sightings or signs of animals included Skunk, a juvenile Hawk {breathtakingly came to land close by us as we sat on the sidewalk eating an orange, a snack after Rhiannon's school program at Shoreline campus this past week).., and mystery horse manure on the harbor bridge (a first and exciting in its own right!). 

And for animal sounds(!!!), the tumultuous cacophony of frogs in Arana Gulch, the waterway and common land at the head of Santa Cruz harbor, after the heavens had cried-me-a-river, was off-the-charts phenomenal. As eco-architect Bioneer Bill McDonough would comment, they come from seemingly nowhere when conditions are favorable. 

I like that metaphor.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

This book has been a rosy Winter Journey, for both of us. Watching a 13 year old grow in confidence and grace is a treasure beyond measure.

Thank You Thank You Thank You to each of you who played a part. The Crowdfunder will remain live, since we can, but I will no longer be proactively posting. Maybe we'll say hello on Spring Equinox!

January 18, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

As my old Scottish Dad would say "The best laid plans o' mice an' men gang oft' awry." 

*This is to update our update*

We never shipped on Saturday.., then it was Sunday..., then it was Martin Luther King Day (no post office).. Then today; one single book shipped, which we thought was pretty much Ceremonial, because it was to Grandpa Alex White Plume, the champion of our Tale. We hadn't quite planned it that way but it seemed perfectly fitting how it played out.

Then we finished off after school before dark, hand-delivering on our bicycles, local deliveries to those who were home.

There were several factors that stretched the task, including that we didn't realize that shipping addresses are not collected from donors so we've been slowly checking up on all of those. But also that it was only fair to have Rhiannon pace herself with all the scribing, each book {wore out her hand!}, not to mention that bunch of TOADS she did {each of which was carefully crafted and shaded}.  All of this to say that we did not render this into any kind of onerous task when it turned out to ask more of us than we had first imagined. We just went on our wending way.

 SANTA CRUZ in the WORLD NEWS.. {last thing}; About that 'Atmospheric River,' meaning, someone just dumped the equivalent of 15x the Mississippi River on our home-town...

{Atmospheric rivers can carry up to 15 times the volume of the Mississippi River, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They appear as a trail of wispy clouds that can stretch for hundreds of miles}.

This morning we cycled the five miles on our tandem between the two houses, from Rhiannon's Auntie's house to ours. Our route takes us high up along the cliff looking out across the the wide blue Ocean, across the Monterey Bay, to the South. The Ocean was such a silky, glistening breathless blue. I exclaimed, "Look at it! How could it be so tranquil after what it just did. It's such a bad boy..... Oh..., I know.., it's a Woman."

 

January 14, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

Update from
*TOAD*
Turn On A Dime Academy

FYI this was our Friday!
The books arrived and a funny thing happened; we discovered we'd inadvertently made a formatting error with one word, because the book software didn't flag that there was a problem. You'll find it on the second page of the book, where we had designed it to say;

Turn On A Dime Academy
TOAD

Except, we put the word "TOAD" in the middle of chevrons like this:

<<< TOAD >>>

Which the software seemed to accept but when the printed books came, it came out like this;

&lt; &lt; &gt; &gt;

So Rhiannon and I went through every book today and she drew a picture of a Toad and I wrote the word 'Toad!'

There you have it! The latest from our Santa Cruz printshop, with another terrific 'cyclone bomb' storm lurking just offshore... This is turning into one utterly memorable Winter.

*~* Feeling Thankful *~*

 

January 11, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane

Quick update here. Happy to say, first batch of books should be shipping to early donors next weekend, Saturday January 14th.
✦¸¸.*'¯`✦* 202​​3​*'¯`✦​✦¸¸.*'¯`✦*​'¯`✦ And we now know that this Campaign will complete its proactive phase on February 2nd.

In case you are not familiar beyond American Groundhog Day (!), February 2nd is the ancient Gaelic 'Imbolc'; first cross-quarter of the year, also St Brigid's Day, as well as Feast of Pan, and Festival of Snowdrops.

Imbolc or Imbolg (Irish pronunciation: [ɪˈmˠɔlˠɡ]), also called Saint Brigid's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Bríde; Scottish Gaelic: Là Fhèill Brìghde; Manx: Laa'l Breeshey), a thoroughly Gaelic traditional festival.

Imbolc marks the beginning of Spring. That is to say on February 2nd, we'll be halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox (Northern Hemisphere). Was that fast or what?!

FEBRUARY 2ND -IMBOLC- CAMPAIGN ENDS

January 08, 2023
Corrina McFarlane
Corrina McFarlane
"Did you know you are the mything link?"
•°—Jean Houston in A Passion for the Possible

Having orchestrated our first Crowdfunders back in the 2009-2012 era...
for our 1,000 Hummingbirds Ceremony years
, we already knew that "crowd" isn't exactly the word, because in reality the unfolding of it, the Journey of it, is all so very personal.

In this Now Moment, there's a joy-lift comes with each one who pops through into Here, suddenly Presencing in our space with a spark and a flash, like a little cut-glass crystal ball set in the window to catch the sun at surprising and always welcome Moments... Or.., like a Hummingbird!

"Hover little Hummingbird
Joy is your Medicine
in these dire and beautiful times.."

Our latest donor, from yesterday, did, in their sudden unexpected Arrival into our space, suddenly evoke all the 1,000 Hummingbirds imagery, which doesn't get to see the light of day so much, more than a decade after we completed that Ceremony cycle here on the West Coast.

"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.." [RF]

THIS IS THE AMAZING STORY 
OF OUR LIVES...; ALL OF US! 

from original painting by Christine DeCamp

"We're a River of Birds in Migration..
A Nation of Women with Wings..."

"The 1,000 Hummingbird Council was formed in Ohlone territory;
the San Francisco Bay Area in the Central Coast region of California.
The mandate of the Council is explicit: CLEAN WATER and well-being for all; no exceptions; {“All Our Relations”}"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* 
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."  •°—from James Joyce {leaving Ireland}, in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Corrina McFarlane

Corrina McFarlane is the organizer of this fundraiser

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