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SPIRIT, MEMORY,
AND ARCHIVES
Land-based practices, rituals, activations honoring ancestral knowledge and cultural memory
In a time of erasure and disconnection, this track asks: what does it mean to remember, together and in right relationship?
This track centers Indigenous science, cultural memory, and embodied knowledge, inviting participants to reflect on how the past lives in the present, and how we carry it forward. Through land-based rituals, botanical inquiry, and collective reflection, participants move through what has been lost, what endures, and what we are choosing to carry forward.
How do we bring the past into the present
in ways that honor who we are now?
At it's heart, this track asks, how are we remembering, archiving this moment, this movement, these relationships? Guided by Indigenous ecologists, cultural workers,
and community knowledge holders, Spirit, Memory, and Archives centers connection,
to the land, spirit, and each other, as a pathway toward collective freedom.
Since it's origin, the Earth Month Convergence has explored this question and deepened its relationship with Spirit, Memory, and Archives over the years.
In 2023, Indigenous Food Demonstrations by Grinding Stone Collective and Buffalo Jump NYC, two Indigenous-led entities, emphasized
the importance of food sovereignty, cultural restoration, and
self-determination in urban settings like New York City.
In 2024, Filogonio Naxín: Social Surrealism Filogonio Naxín, a Mazatec artist, traveled from Oaxaca, Mexico to share his practice of social surrealism. Work that integrates palabra mazateca (Mazatec language) and natural, hand-mixed inks, bridging art, education, and cultural preservation.
In 2025, a Sunset Ceremony by the Water Led by the Hondaruny Buyeinu and elders from across Abya Yala, grounded our work in interdependence and spiritual connection to land and water,
featuring knowledge weaving, altar building, and shared prayers.
In 2026, this track came alive through workshops like Creating Lasting Family and Community Traditions & Feeding the Circle Led by Talaya the Hood Historian alongside Feeding the Circle: An Indigenous Foodways and Community Power Panel. Both these activations supported members and neighbors in tracing their own lineages and cultural histories, work made urgent by generations of erasure.
This track is a living example of what remembering in right relationship looks like, rooted in connection, reciprocity, and the belief that collective freedom begins with knowing where we come from.
It continues to grow and live in our Living Archive, human, flora, fauna, and fungi histories
and knowledge, woven together with sonic and relational cartographies. It is a record
still being written, of lineage, land and the relationships that hold us together.
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