Optional donations made online during the livestream broadcast on November 1st will benefit the important programs happening at Medicine Wheel Living Park to counteract their contaminated water supplies and chemically polluted farming grounds caused by corporations based near the reservations.
The MWLP project (sponsored by the Tribal Trust Foundation) was started after one reservation in the Dakotas experienced 17 teen suicides in just one year. This project involves all youth of the tribes in creating alternative farming and water supply methods, planting fruit trees and vegetable gardens, and renewing their sense of purpose/self-esteem. It has been highly successful but they need to raise considerable funds for a shelter and educational center. Our musicians are passionate about wanting to help them achieve this goal.
This November 1st concert is part of the free monthly Notes for Nourishment online global concert series, a project of the global non-profit foundation ListenForLife.org which "inspires and empowers musicians of all cultures to use their gifts in the service of others".
This particular concert honoring Indigenous Peoples' Day is being sponsored by an award-winning online educational series, TravelsWithMusic.com which features musicians around the world who act as tour guides into their cultures and are working to preserve and pass on their instrumental traditions.
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