Martín Prechtel: Relearning the languages of land, plants, and place
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 57 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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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
| 0:07.9 | podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those |
| 0:13.7 | considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you value and believe in our work, this is our call out. |
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| 0:40.4 | donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so |
| 0:47.6 | grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:54.0 | But the people who are you calling colonial, which, you know, are all... or level of support that you're able to share with us. |
| 0:59.9 | 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. |
| 1:02.0 | But it doesn't work like that. |
| 1:03.5 | Because the so-called colonial who stops you from speaking the language was at some point |
| 1:09.9 | stopped from speaking their language, too. |
| 1:12.5 | It's like English. It never existed as an indigenous language. It was originally, |
| 1:18.2 | came about to become what anybody in their day that it came about as a language of colonization. |
| 1:25.6 | And all of the people that spoke it and were forced to speak it had indigenous languages, |
| 1:30.3 | and they were forced underground with it. |
| 1:32.3 | So the biggest problem with losing who you are to the colonial conundrum, |
| 1:39.3 | you end up promoting exactly the thing that overran your ancestor. |
| 1:56.7 | Today we are honored to welcome Martine Prechtel, an award-winning writer, artist, and teacher who, through his work, both written and spoken, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony, and pre-modern |
| 2:04.4 | vitality hidden in any living language. |
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