Global Patterns

Our goal is to affirm the shared experiences of peoples across the globe for millenia representing the ways they’ve secured sustainability and freedom through common practices and beliefs. 

Whether you’re a member of a proven sustainable and proven free community seeking to build bridges to others or an educator looking to deepen conversations for transformative change these collective experiences and understandings can help you take the next step.

Main Themes

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3 Core Resilience Practices
3 Core Resilience Practices

These are some common beliefs and practices of resistance in the face of empire.

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3 Survivance Approaches
3 Survivance Approaches

These persistent principles and beliefs have enabled Peoples to survive and, in some cases, to thrive in the face of assaults.

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5 Main Enemy Tactics
5 Main Enemy Tactics

Powerful aggressors have used these common tactics in their efforts to dispossess and destroy Indigenous and Maroon Peoples.

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5 Common Enemies
5 Common Enemies

All the assemblies continue to struggle for existence and autonomy in conflict with these systems, institutions, and forces.

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How We Discerned the Patterns

We harvested teachings from the 176 individual quotations and 44 historical background paragraphs for all of the 22 assemblies among the Proven Sustainable and Proven Free Peoples represented on this site then identified repeated themes across the whole collection.

Relevant Resources

Four Arrow’s Indigenous World View chart is another resource that strongly aligns with and informs our work. You can access the document directly here or visit his recorded conversation page to learn more.

Caveats

Because the process of selecting dialogue codes is limited by the biases of the site creator,  we recognize that this summary is neither comprehensive nor authoritative. These same limitations apply to the naming of themes as well. We encourage co-learners to ask their own questions and to formulate conclusions based on their awareness and understanding of the lived experiences of Proven Sustainable and Free Peoples.