* Soon we’ll be able to take on-line orders directly, but for now we need you to send your order by email. We apologize for the inconvenience.		The industrial world is facing an ecological crisis. Traditional ways of life have proved highly durable. The key to success is sustainability. Indigenous peoples today use the resources available without depleting them. They use their intimate knowledge of plants, soils, animals, climate, and seasons, not to exploit nature but to co-exist alongside it. This involves careful management, control of population, the use of small quantities but a wide diversity of plants and animals, small surpluses, and minimum wastage. Plants provide food, medicines, pesticides, poisons, building materials and a lot more. Some tribes spend two to three days hunting and gathering vegetables and fruits, leaving four or five days in camp talking, singing, dancing, and telling stories. How many in the industrialized countries could flourish on a two- or three-day working week? The economic life of indigenous people is based not on competition but on co-operation, for survival is only possible when the community works together. Most small-scale indigenous societies have elaborate systems for sharing food and possessions. And, although largely self-sufficient, many groups have developed mutually beneficial trading relationships. Indigenous forms of economy cannot, of course, satisfy the needs of a burgeoning world population now nearing 6 billion. But the knowledge and, especially, the values of the peoples practicing them are vital. Today all nations are set on a self-destructive path. The lesson from indigenous peoples is to live with, not against, the only world we have. Hoka Hei TShirt GS/GM/S/M/L/XL 18.00 Untamed Spirit TShirt GS/GM/S/M/L/XL 20.00 Fight Back TShirt GS/GM/S/M/L/XL 18.00 Lakota Soul TShirt GS/GM/S/M/L/XL 18.00