Chellis Glendinning
Last Update: April 04, 2003
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Chellis Glendinning (19xx? - )
Chellis Glendinning, a psychologist and author, lives in a small New Mexico village. She has turned her back on "Western civilization" and has moved in with an indigenous community maintained by subsistence agriculture. I am most interested in her break with the West and her attempt to assimilate into a place.
Her 1999 Schumaker lecture.
An open letter to enviros from the Earth Island Institute.
New Times interview.
Talking Leaves interview.
Google on her to find out more.
Posted by sagwalla at April 4, 2003 10:23 AMI would like Chellis to review my latest article...which features a reference to her work.... I invite Chellis to make a comment attached to the piece at http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/oxman11082004/
Thanks for your kind consideration.
Blessings in solidarity, Richard Oxman
dueleft@yahoo.com
P.S. If there's any problem accessing the above link, please know that you can bring up the article by going to www.pressaction.com, punching in my name...and, then, going to the piece titled REBELLION AND DISOBEDIENCE IN NEVER-NEVER LAND
I want to move to a small village maintained by subsistence agriculture. How can I do this?
I am also interested in starting a land reform organization--I think the American people have a right to the land.
Sharon Vile
sharonvile19@earthlink.net
Hate to bust yr balloon Sharon, but we do not have a right to the land. You may belong to the land, but the land does not belong to you. Especially up in Rio Arriba County and the rest of the southwest that was "given" via Spanish Land Grants to Spanish settlers and others.
The Hispanic locals feel very strongly about who has the right to land there. Even if the land was purchased from a registered, deeded landowner, you only have some legal rights and not necessarily the "right" to live there.
I would suggest that anyone who wishes to live in the back country of Rio Arriba, or anywhere in New Mexico, and the small villages in particular, spend at least a year in their area of choice and let the locals come to know and trust you before just moving onto their turf.
There is nothing romantic about subsistence farming. It is hard work with little reward and many failures. Just getting water for your crops can be a major undertaking in these areas.
From one who has been there...
Mr Stick
Asheville, NC
accesspub@charter.net
i want to start community in the southwest-no existing community in this bioregion has yet appealed to me.It must be consensus based anarchist anti rasist and anti sexist w/ the goal of eliminating ingrained heirarchy.i myself am a so called primitivist but i dont restrict others and am moving toward that gradually.unlike many people attempting to live this way i do not at all oppose farming especially in the southwest where the oldest cultures were farmers.nor do i oppse dumpster diving solar panels or dogs and other domesticated animals.Basically i'm just looking for people who love our Mama and want to live like they do and maybe have some skills or some $$ towards land(which i have some but more would sure help)write if you want to talk
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