Subject: Permaculture Course

From: David Fuller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:55:26 -0700 (PDT)

5th Annual Permaculture Intensive Design Course

			25 May thru 2 June 1996

	To be held on the Navajo/Hopi reservation

		Contact BMPP for more information:

   (520) 629-9122 or PO Box 26195, Tucson, AZ 85726

The Course is offered by the BLACK MESA PERMACULTURE 
PROJECT, an Indigenous-based organization, and is free 
to Native Americans.  The $250 fee for other 
participants provides Native scholarships and.materials 
for Course work projects that benefit host families.  
Come equipped for self-sufficient primitive camping.

Our first priority is to provide a quality learning 
experience to interested Native Peoples in an 
atmosphere in which they feel comfortable and that 
accommodates cultural differences.  The course is most 
fitted to those supportive of Native culture.

The Black Mesa Permaculture Project (BMPP) is a project 
of Indigenous People living on reservations on the 
Black Mesa in the Four Corners region of the Southwest.  
What makes this project unique is that it is not only a 
permaculture project on Native Lands, but a project of 
the Indigenous People living there.  It was founded by 
local Dineh (Navajo) residents as part of an effort to 
build a self-reliant and sustainable base to better 
resist corporate encroachment and make sovereignty a 
reality.  BMPP stresses the healing of Mother Earth 
while maintaining the integrity of traditional values 
and practices which were the origins of permaculture - 
completing a spiral cycle.

We provide hands-on education by developing working 
permaculture models, by implementing and monitoring 
projects, by giving workshops and demonstrations, and 
by providing support and networking services.  We also 
assist other Native People, such as the Western 
Shoshone Defense Project, implementing similar projects 
outside Black Mesa where resources permit.