Martín Prechtel: Relearning the languages of land, plants, and place
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this conversation, kaméa chayne is joined by Martín Prechtel, who speaks to us from Northern New Mexico where he presently lives with his family and their Native Mesta horses.
Having grown up with a Pueblo Indian upbringing and later becoming a full member of the Tzutujil Mayan community in the village of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, Prechtel draws on his deeply embodied knowledge of various Indigenous languages and invites us to unravel the meaning of “real culture.”
What does it mean to re-member and re-learn the languages of land, plants, and place?
Join us in this enriching conversation as we explore the contentious politics, practice, and (re)embodiment of Indigeneity, and what it means to become culturally indigestible for the sterilizing stomach acids of the “monster of modernity.”
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| 1:09.9 | But the people who are you calling colonial, which, you know, are all our, quote, enemy would be so great to just have an enemy and go get them. |
| 1:17.8 | But it didn't work like that. |
| 1:19.3 | Because the so-called colonial who stops you from speaking the language was at some point stopped from speaking their language too. |
| 1:28.3 | It's like English. It never existed as an indigenous language. |
| 1:32.3 | It was originally came about to become what anybody in the day that it came about as a language of colonization. |
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