Ekvn-Yefolecv Maskoke Ecovillage: A Story of Indigenous Land Rematriation, Language and Cultural Revitalization, and a Return to Ecologically Regenerative Lifeways
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 2pm to 3:15pm
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1402 10th Ave S, Birmingham, Alabama 35294
Marcus Briggs-Cloud (Maskoke) is a language revitalizer, scholar, musician and co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv: an off-grid, climate-positive, income-sharing ecovillage compromised of Maskoke People who, after 180 years of displacement, returned to their homelands for the revitalization of their language and culture, and commitment to ecologically regenerative lifeways. Marcus is partnered to Tawna Little (Maskoke) and they have two children, Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.
Presented by the UAB Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Human Rights with support from The Jemison Visiting Professorship in the Humanities.
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