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SUSTAINABLE HOMES FOR WOUNDED KNEE
A crew of young volunteers at Wounded Knee poured the foundation for this summer's first healthy, sustainable dome home on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation in South Dakota. This is a win/win project: Lakota and international volunteers learn valuable building skills, and destitute Lakota families get much-needed housing.

Altai Mir University supports this project to begin the healing of the deep trauma and treachery our US government has inflicted on Native Americans, of which the massacres at Wounded Knee in 1890 and 1973 were among the worst. I'll drive from Seattle to Wounded Knee in early July to join the building crew and honor the sacredness of their land and culture.

I be very grateful for your help to fill up my car with bulk organic grains and legumes to feed both the volunteers and the families in Wounded Knee, because our donations thus far all went toward materials costs for the foundations. $20 buys 10 pounds of rice, or beans, peas, millet, etc. -- about a dollar for an ample meal. Donate, or read organizer Christinia Eala's report.

ALTAI UP-DATES
Viktor teaches throat-singing

We've made an annual tradition to cover the costs of our young throat-singers to perform at the Altai national festival. The first of our sponsored throat-singers have completed their education, but some amazing new talent is emerging. We got a great video of 17-year-old Viktor trying to teach throat-singing to the musicians in last summer's pilgrimage group. When our group gave jazz lessons, the throat-singers were on it like wool on a sheep's back.

Your prayers for the preservation of the sacred Ukok Plateau (from a boondoggle gas pipeline) seem to be working. Keep them up, though, because even without permits or a gas sales agreement, Gazprom workers have been on the plateau doing preliminary work.

Finally, British ex-pat Joanna Dobson, who has lived in Altai for most of the past decade, has a whole slew of in-depth blogs about sacred Altai, the most recent being a blurb about the as-yet-undefined niche for spiritual tourism, enabling pilgrims to enter into the sacred Altai culture. You might want to sign up to have her blogs e-mailed to you.

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Altai is more than a place—it is a sacred way of being.

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