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Seeds in Common: On Facebook.
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Seeds in Common: Alright.
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Seeds in Common: are you on Facebook much?
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Daryle CB: Oh, yeah. All the time.
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Seeds in Common: Okay, I thought I saw a Darryl Conquering bear. and it was all beads. And I was like, Okay, this could yeah, crow.
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Seeds in Common: And I was like, Okay, this could be his. But then I couldn't follow and see, or I couldn't add you as a friend, and I couldn't see much more anyway.
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Seeds in Common: Alright, almost on Facebook.
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Seeds in Common: Oh, gosh! What am I doing? We're not doing it on Facebook, because it's live on Thursday. Oh, my goodness.
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Seeds in Common: I figure that out. Okay.
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Seeds in Common: alright cool. Thank you so much for bearing with me.
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Seeds in Common: Alright. Okay, well, Hello, everyone, thank you so much for joining us for the season. Common monthly seats, story conversations with farmers, seat keepers, and community activists. My name is Renee free. I'm the Education Coordinator at season common, and I am very happy to introduce our guest for the February seed story to kick off 2024 for us, Daryl, Conquering Bear Crow, let me tell you a little bit more about him.
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Seeds in Common: Darryl, Conquering Bear Crow is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota tribe located in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, but currently resides in Denver, Colorado. Darryl has a passion for growing food and talking about seeds to youth and elders, and he believes that understanding and nurturing seeds are the way to a better and healthier native American future.
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Seeds in Common: Daryl has seen the process of planting seeds, caring for them through harvest, and retaining the seeds for future growth as a part in the indigenous way of living. He is also a proud 2 spirit that loves to laugh, feed, and share stories that have been passed down to him. So thank you so much, Darrell, for joining us for our first 2024 seed story
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Daryle CB: exciting. To be here. Thank you. Seats in common for having me and opening up this New Year for us, and I know I tell everybody this is the year, Kobe, it's 24. I'm a lot of lessons coming through. A lot of challenges and knowing that I'm already a
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Daryle CB: you know, I planted the seed of this growth of where I'm at, where I'm going in 23. And it's and it's growing right now. And so, really excited to be part of this, share my journey, share the story.
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Daryle CB: and letting know that our 2 spur people are out there planting seeds and looking forward to their growth in the year 24.
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Seeds in Common: Love it! Yes, be like the seed, and then we'll see what happens. No, in the years to come. But thank you so much for that really beautiful parallel to what we're trying to do here. Right? So very happy to connect with you. I've heard some of your seed story through the Community Listening Session series that we were doing last year through a paradigm paradigm shift program, but I've also read a lot of articles online, and you're definitely present.
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Seeds in Common: What a great story! You're very inspiring individual. But I first wanted to talk about your new current work. So you've recently joined the Denver Indian Family Resource Center congratulations. And from, I think, what you told me or what I research is, the youth program manager. So why don't you tell us a little bit about this move and the organization?
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Daryle CB: So this growth started at 10 years ago. Literally, this seed was planted as my first adult job. With Difrag Denver, any family resource center as a healthy living program assistant where I help plant seeds for younger youth that turned out to be mentors, and in the last 10 years
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Daryle CB: The growth of myself and seeing the growth in Denver leaders has been amazing.
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Daryle CB: I said. It's been a decade of growth for me, because I came back to work with that same organization and being able to
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Daryle CB: have that seed
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Daryle CB: planted 10 years ago to now I have blossomed into.
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Daryle CB: I like sunflowers, and so when a sunflower turns, and and they go back and forth with the sun we've I've traveled the sun around the sun 10 times, and so that sunflower is going back and forth, and now we're back in die fract, being able to provide leadership, and a new new seeds to grow for younger generations to come, and so
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Daryle CB: planted at sea 10 years ago to now I've risen.
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Daryle CB: really excited for the youth who are now 10 years older. They're planting their own seats of what they learned. When we first started this organization and this program of loose youth leaders in Denver. And so as a program manager.
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Daryle CB: I now get to do hands on community work with our at risk, youth and youth that are in foster care. And so being able to.
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Daryle CB: I say, in the last 10 years, I was coaching, basketball
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Daryle CB: working with foster programs. In the last 2 years I was working in the health industry as a native wellness coordinator. So being able to talk about nutrition. And those seeds are planted by farmers and by our indigenous people to now being able to place them on my native plane. Talk about the growth of what those seeds produce for our nourishment, and being able to provide
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Daryle CB: those seeds and be able to give them to our elders and our youth? So they can plant their own food.
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Seeds in Common: Wow! Full circle
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Seeds in Common: and you are coming back. And did you call them defra defra die fried. You're coming back full circle, and then you have all of these other traits and characteristics that you now are able to offer them. And you know you really think about timing and
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Seeds in Common: you know you're here now for probably a very important reason. And you were saying that you're you work mainly with adults and youth. With the programs. What are the type of programs that you guys are really focusing on in die frack.
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Daryle CB: So daffer, our mission is to strain vulnerable American, Indian, Alaskan, native, indigenous children and families through Co. Collaborative and culturally responsive services. You could take that in a broad pro spectrum of what you want. With that we particularly work with our at risk and foster kids that are experienced to child welfare system.
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Daryle CB: My stop experience the child welfare system when Die frack was 2 years old. They are now 20 years old, 24 years old, and being able to be part of that and be able to part of that program now working for them. Work for 10 years ago. And now, big picture, as I guess.
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Daryle CB: as an adult. Now.
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Daryle CB: it's huge because we get to take programming and
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Daryle CB: put it in a way that is culturally responsive to our our native youth and our at-risk youth.
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Daryle CB: life skills. Let's plant the seed. Let's plant this knowledge that you're going to have past
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Daryle CB: foster care. And to your adult life, what does that look like? And so given them the different tools that I was given to by Shannon, Francis, and other elders in our community 10 years ago, for growth and development is huge.
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Daryle CB: but at the end of the day
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Daryle CB: my goal is to make sure that these youth are still connected to their culture to their families and to their community. Just planting that seed. I remember when I was going through some trauma, Shannon took me to the garden, and I planted a plant.
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Daryle CB: I didn't know at that moment how healing it is when you put your hands in the dirt and you're talking to the dirt, and you're planting the seed for growth. And you're going through grief.
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Daryle CB: That plan blossom into this amazing sunflower that I will never forget, and it's still
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Daryle CB: there. Well, I don't know if it's the same plant, because seeds like to pollinate once they bloom. And so 10 years now I go back to the Indian Center and see that sunflower. And I remember.
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Daryle CB: and I and I see the 10 years of growth.
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Daryle CB: the challenges that flower may have as me represented there that wow! I've came back to my community. I moved back.
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Daryle CB: left. And now I'm back. And to see that flowers still blossom. Still there is amazing, and it reflects to our foster kid journeys that are out there that this is temporary. It's not forever. Our kids are in foster care now could enter them teenage years, they can be returned back to their homes. And so that's what we do at Diefra cause making sure that they have hope
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Daryle CB: there's some Brazilian see? And so when we plant that seed, we want them to know that you're gonna water it. You are going to talk to it. You're gonna nurture how you can, and to always come back because our ancestors prayed for us 7 generations ago. And now we need to make sure that movement is 7 generations ahead of us.
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Seeds in Common: Hair here. I appreciate you saying that. I also just wanted to comment. I love how you have this opportunity to kind of see the fruits of your labor 10 years later. Right? You know, like you were there 10 years ago. And then, now, these kids are much older, and you actually get to see, you know, all of the positive impact.
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Seeds in Common: Right there, you know, in this data set, almost that's really cool. And that's a really unique experience, especially after leaving and then coming back like, really cool there.
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Seeds in Common: And then I wanted to ask, so do you currently have programs with difrag that involves specifically working with seeds or gardening, or even like connecting with elders to share that type of knowledge.
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Daryle CB: So I just joined last week, but I've been around this work, and I bank volunteering with spirits, and Shannon, Francis, the executive director there, and always keeping me involved with the seeds, always keeping me involved with programming. And so I'm very excited to know that we're gonna be partnering with them. So with our youth that are coming on board our youth group. They will be taught
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Daryle CB: through the seed and through their mentorship program, and our foster kids are gonna be able to do that. I know first hand experience. I'm not gonna say I'm an expert expert, but we do have those experts that are out there. I'm just the lease of that a plant that I just stated 10 years ago, and there's other ones that have
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Daryle CB: abundance of knowledge in that plant seed network. And so I'm planning to grow my knowledge more also for you to be able to plant that seed. I know the very first activity we're gonna do. And I know Shannon taught us. This is that you're gonna get a seed and you're gonna put it as a bug bag, and you're gonna help that seed grow. I know that you probably don't have dirt right now or somewhere, stability, but when you find that home, and when you find
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Daryle CB: whatever home that you desired that it's gonna be your home. You're gonna transpose that plant and seed it right there. You're gonna talk to it every day. You're gonna see it every day.
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Daryle CB: and it's gonna grow. And I and I think when I went through that activity
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Daryle CB: and I finally planted that at home which is back by the Indian center. I can always come home. This is my community. And to see that plan thriving
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Daryle CB: is gonna be amazing. So these foster kids are going to be connected. Partnership collaboration is huge. We can do this without our elders or 2 spirit people our own. She's their grandmas or grandfathers, and so being able to make it full circle for our families together, so that they can share that knowledge with their grandkids, so their nieces or nephews.
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Seeds in Common: Your new place of employee has a really amazing, individually just added to the team, and I can see that you already have
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Seeds in Common: all of these goals that you plan to implement and partnerships. And just so much positive impact is gonna be happening for those kids. And you know, as we. We're a seat saving organization, and we believe in the healing power of seeds. And we do so through education. That's really our arm into being able to encourage that positive impact.
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Seeds in Common: And
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Seeds in Common: yeah, I just, I'm totally connecting with everything that you're saying. And we'd love to be able to help support that work, too. So you know, Shannon is definitely on board the season common and already looking forward to possible collaborative opportunities.
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Seeds in Common: so you know what? So you mentioned that Shannon kind of brought you into this world? And You know. What?
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Seeds in Common: What was it? What? What was the catalyst, or you know what really brought you to this, this point in your life, to really connect with the power of seed saving growing food like, what? What really does it mean to you.
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Daryle CB: But I came on as it missed the first spirit of the sun.
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Daryle CB: And that as a as a youth
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Daryle CB: coordinator youth program.
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Daryle CB: That's British son, and I didn't know what I was gonna get into, but I was open minded. I'm always taught by my uchi grandma
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Daryle CB: to keep an open mind. Our our ancestors were open-minded people.
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Daryle CB: Our relatives are open minded people, and you always come and you shake with a heart, form, handshake and an open heart. And so, going into this experience.
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Daryle CB: I didn't know what I was getting into, but I was excited.
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Daryle CB: through grief, through trauma historical trauma being in a foster care.
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Daryle CB: There's so many different outlets that are out there to overcome a lot of that was being a psychotropic medicine. What does that look like?
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Daryle CB: But what does it mean when you come off of that? And you're going naturally, and you're naturally healing. And so being out of foster care and not on medicines, because that wasn't the life I was able to
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Daryle CB: understand that
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Daryle CB: I needed to be there. She talked about that that activity with the youth to see her. This was this was her like
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Daryle CB: life, giving and seeing her going back and forth to Arizona, into other tribal reservations, and being able to tell those plant stories was huge. I got the opportunity to go to Pawnee. Oklahoma Dev is the seed keeper out there
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Daryle CB: and to see the seeds that have they've planted. They've restored. They've kept for their seed. Library was huge and eye-opening for me.
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Daryle CB: I didn't know our foods. Their foods were traditional foods from their ancestors that they've had that leanage come along. So we have. As as individuals we have a family. Tree
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Daryle CB: seeds have a family tree. Seeds
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Daryle CB: have brought us nutrition for the longest time, and so I was gifted a
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Daryle CB: a bare cloud. Bean.
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Daryle CB: It. It is cute because it has a bear claw on it. And Deb told me when it's appropriate and you feel like planting it. This will produce nutrition food for you. This will be
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Daryle CB: Help you build your own sleep library.
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Daryle CB: I came back that summer. I planted it. I was so excited. Bean sprouts are all over the place, and I was able to
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Daryle CB: collective bean seeds for the next harvest
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Daryle CB: for the next generation to come, and it provided a meal. Protein beans of protein. And so, learning that with my native plate and understanding that
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Daryle CB: different traditional foods, corn, the 3 sisters squash, and everything that we plant in our garden is nutrition. First, it's a traditional food for us. So being able to do that summer vista so a year long. Still vista with spiritus on. This helps me understand that the seed library is important.
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Daryle CB: Everything that we do in life is important, and that medicine will that journey at life 7 generations after us and before us. And so I'm a product of a kid that was in foster care. But being able to exit care.
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Daryle CB: regain my cultural knowledge to be able to share.
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Daryle CB: 10 years later. It has been amazing in creating my own sea library.
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Daryle CB: The one thing that I am excited for is to be able to add our 2 spirit people, and knowing that they have always been caretakers of our land and our of our people.
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Daryle CB: but the stigma around that is, you know, they're supposed to be hunting worse, you know. Why, you know. Why are our weekday? We call them into the quota word as 2 spirit people. Why are they in the kitchen? Why are they doing? You know what the standard women responsibilities are? But we're in 2024. And so there's different roles and responsibilities for everybody in the native community, especially in the seat community of collecting their own seed libraries.
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Seeds in Common: So would. people in your cultural tradition who are 2 spirits? Would they typically be designated as food growers or seed keepers, or have that particular role or the intermediary role.
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Daryle CB: From knowledge. That I spoke to elders. Because you don't read these in books. You you're told stories from our elders. You're told stories from experience, people that yes, they are also seed collectors. They're also food gatherers, and they're also wants to take care of the the families when there's tribulations going on, there are ones that you go to talk to as well.
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Seeds in Common: and at least from you know what I've read. You know what limited information I have is very honorable role as well, and I'm glad that 2024 is somewhat following suit, you know, with that mentality in Western culture.
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Daryle CB: Yes.
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Seeds in Common: so it's it's obvious you seem to be very passionate about nutrition and you know, much like my cultural lineage. My family is from the Philippines there is a a major Spanish influence.
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Seeds in Common: and very quickly the diet change, and today there is an alarming rate of diabetes amongst just even my family and I just wanted to talk to you a little about little bit about that, because diabetes is a very passionate subject for me as well, especially in, you know
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Seeds in Common: like, also believing that food is your medicine and even breaking it down for further seeds. But I just wanted to get your perspective and take on that as well.
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Daryle CB: Yeah. So, working as the native wellness coordinator, the Denver and health and family services, the past 2 years is really opened up my eyes. Yeah, I do have a family
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Daryle CB: history background of diabetes, heart pressure, medicine, blood pressure medicine.
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Daryle CB: It wasn't until I fully engaged in our in defenses. Wellness, coordinated position as the diabetes, education, part of that where we bring in patients, or we bring in loved ones who have people that have diabetes and really talk about what that means. And really
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Daryle CB: Understand that our native people were healthy people. They were hunters. I look at quit pages.
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Daryle CB: pictures of my ancestors hunting buffalo.
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Daryle CB: and there! There's not an ounce of
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Daryle CB: fat on them. They're all muscle. They're they're out there, and to carry that buffalo to Skinny. You know there was no issues surrounding that. Our bodies weren't inflamed or muscles, or there was no arthritis. And so for
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Daryle CB: my generation to come around and and to have all these barriers in our life.
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Daryle CB: Wasn't great. And so again, if I this is why I'm excited about my position is that I'm able to add the nutrition and the healthy component to teaching. It's not just about life skills. It's about
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Daryle CB: healthy lifestyles and relationships moving forward. What does that look like bringing in the food aspect and not just the traditional culture ways, but also that food ways. You know wild rice is good.
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Daryle CB: you know. Eating rice is healthy for you if you're eating it from a traditional way, you know, and being able to provide that nutrition of a my native plate, and talking about our meets the buffalo. That Tonka meat is a high protein for you, and it's good for you. What does that look like to 70 30 beef?
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Daryle CB: Okay? And also planting that squash the pumpkins? We did a pumpkin workshop. And people didn't know the benefits of pumpkin seeds. The pumpkin
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Daryle CB: are just in general squash and so we're we're able. We're in Denver. We have tokave help the indigenous recipes. And so, we're able to collaborate with them and be able to have recipes and be able to share our traditional foods in a way that is a new generation
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Daryle CB: of learning to eat healthy. How do we plant that seed in a 12 year old's mind to understand that it's okay to eat your buffalo. It's okay to eat squash. You can switch your your broccoli for squash and understand what that traditional food was for ancestors back in the day. And so
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Daryle CB: many of those
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Daryle CB: traditional medicines and traditional foods help our bodies without taking
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Daryle CB: pharmaceutical medicines, and so being able to teach that and understanding that sage sweet grass seeder is sacred to us, and understanding how to use that medicine in our bodies every day is, gonna be huge.
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Seeds in Common: Yes, and you know, just kind of changing this, the perspective that
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Seeds in Common: these are tools for your health, right like this food, these food choices, what you're choosing to grow tools for your health, and then it it empowers someone to make good decisions. You know it's such an easy. You know the culture that a lot of us. Experience in this country is fast food nation, you know.
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Seeds in Common: very easy and quick rather than you know, having to plant the seed, nurture it. Way to growing season, and then let it go to seed. Some of it go to seed, and then some of it, you know, that takes a lot of patience. And
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Seeds in Common: it's just really changing this narrative that we've all kind of been groomed to experience in this in this day and age.
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Seeds in Common: yes, but utilizing culturally relevant
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Seeds in Common: foods as tools for your own health empowerment. That's yeah. I totally feel that. Believe it. High. 5.
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Seeds in Common: So in in your area. When I think about Denver, I think of a very urban, very populated environment. Is that what would you say is kind of the neighborhood and environmental background that your network is dealing with. Is it
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Seeds in Common: pretty developed? Or would you say?
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Daryle CB: It's starting to be gentified. It's starting to
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Daryle CB: where there were spaces, for gardens are no longer spaces. They're becoming buildings for housing.
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Daryle CB: We're now. The gardens have to be pushed out of the area for our people. And so it it's very eye opening when I talk about this to our young people, because this is their normal. And I'm like, this isn't normal. This is
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Daryle CB: pushing up food. Safety concerns where you have to, then go to a grocery store. That's maybe
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Daryle CB: what could have been 2 miles away is now going to be 5, 6 miles away, and we talked about our ancestors, especially our ancestors and naval nation like, are always out there, walked everywhere, and they planted in in the area that
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Daryle CB: it's high desert. And so how do they get all those nutritious foods for them? I mean a way that we're in Denver, where
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Daryle CB: we don't have that access to soil, and if we do, we don't know what's under that soil. And so a lot of education around that, and understanding when we do clients. That's why I'm excited for the partnership for this time. I'm in her garden wellness with Nancy Ray to
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Daryle CB: provide a toolbox.
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Daryle CB: limited on our balcony. So you're gonna plant your tomato tomatoes have buying. So when it's an appropriate way to find up space, so you can
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Daryle CB: make sure that your tomatoes are growing right, and they have the space they have the area to breathe. So those are challenges that are out there for our native indigenous community. Out here is their spaces are being taken away so they can provide more housing.
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Seeds in Common: And then that just adds more people and then creates more scarce, you know, could create like a food desert. Seems like you know, what was once 2 miles away is now quite a bit longer now. And
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Daryle CB: oh, yes, we need an urban planner there.
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Seeds in Common: Oh, well, you know, I think, that your solution of educating more on container gardening and the reality of what the landscape is for people in your community or in the network of the gentrified Denver area. At least it will be a means to the end. Like, you know, I live in a very small property. I don't have really land, but through raised beds and through container
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Seeds in Common: gardening I'm able to grow peppers and tomatoes and lettuce, and you know. But I would have never been able to get to that path without some mentor and education.
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Daryle CB: Yes.
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Seeds in Common: and so yeah, this is. this is all really great. Thank you so much. Oh, I wanted to ask you more about
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Seeds in Common: well, okay, so II actually, I wrote this when you were working at the other organization. But I saw some really cool events about like
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Seeds in Common: 2 spirit workshops and even movie screenings. And so I wanted to ask you more about that as well.
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Daryle CB: That that's great. I I will be doing that same screening for foster youth that are out there because we have youth. That is 2 spirit foster kids out there. So there's no knowledge or education out there for them. How does it be? Once?
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Seeds in Common: Okay?
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Daryle CB: Sorry I had to find a button there.
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Daryle CB: Yeah, we had a screening for we have a local celebrity. I call her Buffalo Barbie, who was in that screening. That is able to share that experience and talk about again. We're just planting the seed of our 2 spirit people and our indigenous people in
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Daryle CB: in the movie Was a seed planted for our native use right now that they could be in movies, they can portray their stories. And so I'm so glad Lily, last night was able to
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Daryle CB: to win, to be able to show that we can do that. We can be in those spaces that
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Daryle CB: by here planting the seed we don't know 7 generations down that what's gonna happen? Are we gonna be represented? Our, our, our our seed stories are gonna be told. And so a seed story of that youth on the roof of the Disney. Well, Buffalo Barbie has been planted. How are we gonna neutral? That? How are we gonna water that? How are we gonna have that grow?
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Daryle CB: Is the next steps next 7 generations cause? I remember 7 generations ago, even 10 decades a decade ago we didn't have visualization. We didn't have
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Daryle CB: native people playing us.
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Daryle CB: and all. My, all I could think about was smoke signals, and that was the first thing I saw, and that was the seed that was planted, and I don't think we nourish that, and we didn't water it enough to blossom like it is in in 2020.
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Seeds in Common: Well, thank you for sharing. That's really cool that you're still involved in that programming with your former employee. It's very necessary, and
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Seeds in Common: you know it's it's a population that's often been overlooked. A in Western culture and
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Seeds in Common: There's no reason to do so anymore with everything that's happening and hopefully moving forward.
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Seeds in Common: let's see here. I also read some of your articles sharing your experience with the Foster care system at risk, youth and the Indian Children Welfare Act and I just wanted to ask if you wanted to speak about that at all. Ii read some of your narratives, and they were really powerful and poetic.
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Seeds in Common: And anyways, I wanted to see if you wanted to share more about that.
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Daryle CB: Yeah.
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Daryle CB: again, plan to that seat for the initial we offer Act was planted 42 years ago so that we can keep connected to our culture and keep connected to our who we come from or where we come from. And so it's still the
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Daryle CB: watering on it. It still needs some nutrition on it. But at the end of the day I feel that we're still working on it, and that's why I'm excited to be the program manager to be able to work on it, too.
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Seeds in Common: Yeah, that's awesome.
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Seeds in Common: it's great that you're able to use your own experience and your new role to to continue doing this important work. And you know, casting
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Seeds in Common: you know, based upon your experience. With your own in in the Foster care system.
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Seeds in Common: So the yeah, thank you very much for sharing
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Seeds in Common: and take your time.
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Daryle CB: Sorry. So I like to plant seeds myself and being able to
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Daryle CB: placement. Our youth just came into the
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Daryle CB: oh, and so like, when I talk about
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Daryle CB: the work I do. I also need to know that I have to do that work as a community member. So I wanted to hear him to hear what's going on, but at the same time
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Daryle CB: he can hear it on Thursday. And so it's one of those activities that I can count as a cultural activity. We did for the week. So it's our elders that are out there that also this child welfare is needed. And so
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Daryle CB: planning to seeds for other native individuals out there in our community is huge. They they need to be part
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Daryle CB: of the the growing kids that are in foster care.
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Daryle CB: I read a stat that Navo nation youth.
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Daryle CB: we have a lot of them in the Denver area. And so how do I start connecting them to their foods, to their to their relations back home? And so
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Daryle CB: II will be doing a lot of research, a lot of collaboration with Shannon and other
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Daryle CB: DNA people that are
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Daryle CB: able to help nurture their growth, too.
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Seeds in Common: That's good to hear. So yeah, we're actually getting to the close of our time together. And I wanted to. I always like to ask our guests.
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Seeds in Common: what can our network do to support you and your work. You know. What do you want to cast the light on? What's really important to you right now? What do you want to translate to our communities so that we can support you?
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Daryle CB: II really am loving this concept of collaboration, but I also am excited to see how we can build a tool box of traditional foods, a C tool box, so that we, when we teach this to our youth or foster youth.
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Daryle CB: our community, that
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Daryle CB: this is a this is your seed library. This is where your growth begins. These are your first seeds. And so when you plant these seeds, and it's time to harvest you are. Gonna take that seed out of there and begin your library, and I don't think we have that, and that's something that I'm looking forward to for the collaboration.
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Daryle CB: Then, understanding that different seeds from different regions of our native people. they plant different. They they eat different. And so we can create a tool box of seeds for
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Daryle CB: our our youth that are out there, especially our youth, that are in child welfare.
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Daryle CB: It did a lot of healing for me to be able to put my hands in the dirt, to be able to soil, fill the soil, fill the dirt and really talk.
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Daryle CB: and and I laugh about it because Shannon's like, no, you have to talk to it.
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Daryle CB: You have to. When you water your plant, you talk to it, and I remember this corn that we planted every morning on 10 years ago I would walk by it and say, you are gonna provide me some nutritious meals you are gonna grow.
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Daryle CB: And that plant was that corn was so huge, and Shannon was surprised by how big it was.
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Daryle CB: And she goes. What did you know? How did I have? I said I talked to you, told me to talk to you, told me to water it, and that's like our youth. We we got encouraged, and we have to grow them. And in different ways. There's challenges that are out there. But for me an overall solution is to be able to provide that 2 boxes seeds for them.
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Daryle CB: because whatever's happening in that is just temporary. But art to live we need food.
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Daryle CB: We need water, we need knowledge, and so to be able to provide that so that
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Daryle CB: they can provide their own gardening for their families, for the generations to come.
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Seeds in Common: Yes, I think that we should work on a seed tool box.
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Seeds in Common: that connects to culture, and then nutrition and we should continue having this conversation and see what we can manifest for 2024.
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Seeds in Common: I think that would be great.
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Daryle CB: Definitely. I'm excited.
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Seeds in Common: Okay, alright. So definitely have some more work to do this year. But to close our seed story, I have my favorite question, and it always cha, it changes for me on a seasonal basis. May be the same for you. But currently, what is your favorite seed to save?
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Daryle CB: Right now
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Daryle CB: I'm I'm gonna go back to that bean seed.
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Daryle CB: That was the the creative story for me. That is going to be the creation story of how
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Daryle CB: my seat journey has began. And so I have it in my office. The other seats that I do have. I have to. There. It's like the the claw has now like almost overcame. That being so, it's like over it. The first original one had like a little claw in the big beam, and so it almost resembles of my life
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Daryle CB: journey of of the sea journey that it's overcoming. And so I'm excited. So when that clog closes.
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Daryle CB: it's signifying that I now able to move forward and understand that this part of life I'm gonna share it with my nieces and nephews, or my grandkids or kids to come. And so that being
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Daryle CB: bear in the beanstalk. I'd love to see a picture of this bean.
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Daryle CB: I will send it to you.
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Seeds in Common: this inspiring being that change the course of your life, and then is going to evolve into something new and something on the same path, but
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Seeds in Common: in a
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Daryle CB: parallel direction. Who knows where it's gonna go, but it's going somewhere. Good!
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Seeds in Common: Well, good. Well, thank you so much for spending this time with me. It really was a joy to meet you.
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Seeds in Common: Learn about your work, and to really dream about what we can do. And this year and I'll still, I'm gonna stay connected with you and just wanna. Thank you once again for being a part of seed story and doing the work that you do. It is very necessary, and the least that we could do it seeds and commons to just put a light on you and just show our appreciation for your great work. So thank you so much, Daryl.
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Daryle CB: Thank you, and I appreciate everybody and everybody that's out there. I ask you to find your seed story. Find where you can grow, and if you haven't found a seed yet. Find that seed.
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Daryle CB: plant it, nourish it, and let's talk about it 7 generations from now
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Seeds in Common: you're here. Well, thanks again. Thanks for joining everyone, and we'll see you at the next seed story.
