East

[Note:  If you have not read yet the page about the Circle, please consider doing that now, before you read this page.] The sun rises each day in the East, which is therefore the starting point for the journey of the Circle.  East is the place of new beginnings — of birth and rebirth, the Read More

Ways of Knowing

Different ways of knowing, learning about, and responding to the natural world are central to Tapestry’s mission, because these are important processes of Indigenous Knowledge. Of course, in the natural world, the ways that people and  animals come to understand things are not separated into separate and discrete categories. Instead, different types of information are Read More

The Circle

Tapestry was founded by a Choctaw Indian woman to operate out of Indigenous worldview. The Circle common to many Indigenous peoples helps to explain Tapestry’s organizational system — how we see the world around us and our place in it, and therefore what we do and how  we do it. The fact that we use Read More