Meditation: White Pine Kin
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Find the full text of this episode on MissingWitches.com. Works Cited: https://www.ababord.org/L-histoire-de-l-occupation-Anishnabe-dans-les-Laurentides https://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.html https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/labcoat-life/common_ancestry_we_come_from/#:~:text=All%20animals%20(including%20humans)%2C,stem%20from%20a%20single%20root. https://www.science.org/content/article/ancestor-all-placental-mammals-revealed https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s13595-012-0201-8#:~:text=Pinus%20originated%20~150%20Ma%20in,by%20the%20newly%20emerging%20angiosperms. https://forestierenchef.gouv.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/135-143_MDPF_Pins.pdf https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/vintage-red-and-white-pines-worth-finding-in-northeastern-ontario-1.3137727 https://www.sudbury.com/lifestyle/resident-works-with-sudburys-white-pine-history-225237 https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ontarios-majestic-white-pine-2512791 https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-sudbury-ontario-extractive-industries-transition/ https://www.science.org/content/article/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120620133357.htm https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/movementtowardsreconciliation/chapter/the-greater-sudbury-area-atikamesksheng-anishnawbek/ https://iupress.org/9780253215192/native-pragmatism/ https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/education/HaudenosauneeGuide.pdf https://www.nelma.org/the-eastern-white-pine-tree-will-likely-migrate-west-with-climate-change/ https://www.jcrt.org/archives/04.3/lokensgard.pdf https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/ Photo by Ryan Hodnett CC-A-SA Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world. Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people. • Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com. • Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us! The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
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"No stories inspired by a kinship with trees move in straight lines. I am tracing roots as deep as I can imagine, reaching in the dark. As usual, I’m trying to find the outlines of a story I’ve been missing, just hoping not to f*ck it up too much. But I’ll say this from the start - to orient this kinship meditation on the Missing Witches podcast - witchcraft is activism, it’s political, it has to be, we are people who are kin with those who have been oppressed. Witchcraft then is a land back movement. It has to be, we can’t look for connections to spirit and not throw our lot in with the people who spent hundreds of generations here, learning the spirit of these places. In mapping the practicalities of land back, we follow the lead of indigenous people like Georges Lafontaines, Communication officer at Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council, who writes, “our demands are not aimed at suppressing the non-native presence. We do not want to put the houses of non-Aboriginal people on wheels. Unoccupied lands are claimed, as well as participation in the management of the lands of the region… we wish to claim this territory in harmony with the population present. We also want important symbols put back in place, such as renaming waterways in the area, which had Indigenous names for millennia before the arrival of Europeans.” I lean into this kind rationality like resting my tired weight on a great tree."
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