We hope to see you at the Black Hills Unity Concert this September 9-11, 2016. For more info see: www.TheUnityConcert.com

In this music video, spoken-word artist Lyla June offers a poetic reflection on time and the wisdom needed to care for future generations. To learn more, check out the video on https://emergencemagazine.org/ Lyla June - Writer and Musician Desirae Harp - Additional Vocals Adam Loften - Director and Editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee - Producer Judah Kerr - Beat Producer Jason Joseffer - Director of Photography Subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC08u6dw1kqCRh6__juO8GHg?view_as=subscriber?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Emergence Magazine: Twitter: https://twitter.com/emergence_zine Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpiritualEcology/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emergencemagazine Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/emergencemagazine Emergence Magazine is a quarterly online publication featuring innovative stories that explore the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest stories from Emergence directly to your inbox: https://emergencemagazine.org/newsletter/

🦅 Lyla June - Boarding Schools ft. Lee Moquino 🙏🏽 (Official Music Video) ✨ From upcoming EP 🎙 Dropping Jan. 4th 🦅 DONATE TODAY: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/ 🎙 We are people of peace and people of love dedicated through truth, faith, and compassion to healing the legacy of boarding schools in the united states that still affects us today.✨ 📜 FROM THE TREATY OF BOSQUE REDONDO:“In order to ensure the civilization of the Indians entering into this treaty... the necessity of education is admitted, they therefore pledge themselves to compel their children, male and female, between the ages of six and sixteen years, to attend school; it is the duty of the agent for said Indians to see that this stipulation is strictly complied with; the United States agrees that, a house shall be provided, and a teacher competent to teach the elementary branches of an English education…” ✍🏽Signed in 1868 by Diné people as thousands of us were imprisoned at gunpoint.Only once it was signed would the United States Government allow us to leave The Fort Sumner concentration camp, where over 2,000 Diné died of starvation, disease, and abuse. Our grandmothers went to such schools and we are determined to reclaim our beauty. We are poised to change schooling for our youth today to be in Indigenous languages promoting their culture and identity. It is time for Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous science to lead the way.🌿 Producer: Adam Elfers Background Vocals: Lee Moquino Mixing/Mastering: Emery Dobyns Cello/Fiddle: Duncan Wickel Recording Engineer/Percussion/Bass: Aaron Lipp, Temple Cabin Studios Music Video Cinematography: Noor-un-nisa Touchon Composer/Guitar: Lyla June Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is a poet, singer-songwriter, hip-hop artist, ecologist, public speaker and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. Her messages focus on Indigenous issues and solutions, supporting youth, inter-cultural healing, historical trauma, and traditional land stewardship practices. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans. www.lylajune.com

Lyla June's official music video for 'North Star' feat. Quincy Davis. 100% of Bandcamp sales benefit Seventh Generation Fund, purchase here: https://ffm.to/lylajune-northstar More from Lyla June: All Nations Rise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr2VLI8jKww Time Traveler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulK_GE9XjO8 Mamwlad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGLDwfrvb8 More from Quincy Davis: Make it Through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUm6udA4ds Cao Xango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eWLQJK0_TI Lighthouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CdIqoc5zUk Follow Lyla June: Website: https://www.lylajune.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LylaJune Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/LylaJuneTweets Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lylajune Subscribe to Lyla June on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/lylajune?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Quincy Davis: Website: https://www.7vision.link Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QuincyDavisMusic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/QuincyDavisMusic Subscribe to Quincy Davis on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SEVENVISION/?sub_confirmation=1 --------- Lyrics: Oh my Creator Helper of my soul Walk with me on this road 'Cuz I can't do it on my own No I can't do this alone These days I walk with An aching in my soul With you all I know is All I have to do is ask And you'll show me the path All I have to do is ask And you'll show me the path 'Cuz when I don't got no strength You lift me up, yeah And when I can't find my way You are my north star You, the One who rushes in When I cry out to the sky Step into the field I can feel the wind Help me see me through your eyes So my broken wings can fly Help me see me through your eyes So my wings can fly Let me fly Riding the wind I'm on Facing the storm I know Imma make it home All I do is ask And you help me follow the path Remember the truth Calling us back All I been through to be Ready for that All I been through to be Right where I'm at Living the proof Pick up these pieces I'm broken and bruised With infinite reasons I'm grateful to you Given this life and Each breath is anew Yeah, finally I see through the dark at night Follow your light Finally I see myself through your eyes Yeah, finally I can see I can change my life Change my life Finally I see myself through your eyes My heart is a maze But I know that I never walk alone I know that I'm Gonna find Gonna find Gonna find My way home My way Still some days I want to escape The truth that eats me whole. But with your grace I know I can face it 'Cuz you don't let me go You only love me more 'Cuz you don't let me go You only love me more When I am in the storm you are my anchor So bring on the storm you are my anchor Finally I see myself through your eyes Finally I can see I can change my life Finally I see myself through your eyes Video: Director/Editor: Quincy Davis Cinematography: Quincy Davis Audio: Written and Composed By: Lyla June Johnston and Quincy Davis Produced By: Quincy Davis

www.TheFutureIsIndigenousWomen.com | This is our musical offering to the resilience, beauty, power and wonder of Indigenous Women across Turtle Island and Abya Yala (colonially known as North/South America). We pray we all continue to heal, grow, shine, unite, and live our truest purpose. This beautiful beat was created by the brilliant Judah Kerr (find him on Spotify/Soundcloud/Apple Music/etc) who currently lives in unceded Tsétsêhéstâhese/Hinono’ei territory. The song idea was conceived by Kalika Tallou Davis and commissioned by The Future Is Indigenous Women project of Native Women Lead and New Mexico Community Capital, which work to incubate Indigenous woman-owned businesses. Much of the footage for this music video came from their events over the years. Please check out their websites and support their work! https://nmccap.org/ https://www.nativewomenlead.org/ https://thefutureisindigenouswomen.com/ Music Video Directed By: Noor-un-nisa Touchon & Kalika Davis Edited By: Noor-un-nisa Touchon & Vladimir Chaloupka

This Beltane, we are forgiving the persecution of an estimated 6-9 million women as "witches" in Europe with the release of our new music video, "Mamwlad." Cinematography: Jay Jacoby Craig Whyte Michael Clark Editor: Michael Clark Wardrobe Supervisor: Priscilla Peña Composer: Lyla June As a biracial woman (Native American/European), I thought it would be good to take the time to write this song to honor all of my grandmothers (and grandfathers) who were burned alive, drowned alive, raped, beaten and tortured in torture chambers for being so called "witches" and "warlocks" (https://www.nfb.ca/film/burning_times/). I know that these people were not evil, but rather were the carriers of Indigenous European knowledge that was demonized by colonizing forces, just as my Native American ancestors were demonized and persecuted. This is a wound that we as Europeans have yet to heal face, forgive, and heal from. If we can find the courage to heal from this, I believe we could break many cycles and resolve much untended intergenerational trauma, to help not only European folk, but all those who are affected by our unresolved trauma. Our elders have taught us that any assault on the women of a society is also an assault on the men who love them. Imagine having your wife, or daughter burned alive and being restrained from helping her. This is what so many of our grandfathers went through and it drove them purely mad. We must too pray for the soul of the masculine that was tricked into thinking it was insufficient, tricked into thinking it "failed to protect." These are all psychological tactics to make us hate ourselves across the board and have damaged us for too many generations. This is healed through self-love and the forgiveness of this unimaginable cruelty of others. It is time to throw off these chains and throw off these lies and affirm our sacredness and worth as men and women in the eyes of Creator. I named this song Mamwlad (Mah-Mu-Lahd), which means "Motherland" in the Welsh language. In the 1920s, if you were caught speaking Cymraeg (Welsh) in school you would get a big block of wood tied around your neck with the letters W.N. there inscribed. This stood for "Welsh Not," and you could only get the wood off your neck if you caught another child speaking welsh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not). The prohibition of this Indigenous European language is one example of many of how our ancestral, earth-based culture was suppressed and destroyed much like my Native American ancestral culture was. It is time for all of us to return to our indigenous selves and this includes Europeans. It is time for us to look behind the thin wall of time that dominates our understanding of Europe--the time of King Edward I who ordered the massacred of 100 harpists and bards of the Celtic Nations, the time of Napoleon, the time of Hitler--and remember who we truly are, beneath all the trauma and rubble. It is time to reach into the time of Indigenous European culture evidenced by a figurine of a woman, symbolizing the sacred earth and the sacredness of women, found in German soil in 2009, whose radiocarbon dating indicated that it was at least 40,000 years old. It is time to remember that this is who we really are. And, it is time to forgive. For when we do not forgive, we become the oppressor, as we perpetuate the violence that we experienced on other peoples the world over. We have the power to help this end immediately for the sake of generations of human beings of all ethnicities worldwide. In sum, if we find the courage to face the truth and love through it, the way all great leaders have done throughout time, we can heal 7 generations forward and 7 generations backward. We have this power to transmute that darkness into hope and become the humble examples of healing that we as European descent folks are capable of being. We must also recognize that witch burning still occurs today in many countries around the world (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-religion-witchcraft/killing-of-women-child-witches-on-rise-u-n-told-idUSTRE58M4Q820090923). I hope we can unite to heal the past, the future and the present day to say no woman should ever be killed because of her spiritual practice. Please join me in this musical, cinematic journey, filmed in the ancient sacred homelands of Gaelic, Celtic and Welsh civilizations, blessed by wild ponies, and connected to local Indigenous women of contemporary time.