April 17, 2024

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Fresh from the Information Architecture Conference in Chief Seattle City, Susan Koch, Lead Social iA, for the 2RowFlow Cultural Commons project where she presented her poster on PeaceMakerAI.net to her UX and IA peers.  The poster showcased the commons communications core:   PeaceMakerAI.net . Susan was blessed with an unexpected, unplanned encounter with the 4x Great Grandson of Chief Seattle. It was serendipity that brought her face to face with Mr. Ken Workman and the opportunity to speak with him briefly and stand by his side.

 

We give thanks to all who continue to support of this emerging commons and our mission to enable right relationship between First Peoples and Settlers on Turtle Island through technology. 

 

Ken Workman, the 4x great grandson to Chief Seattle, of the Duwamish Peoples, opened up the IAC24 conference reminding us, once again, of the deep irony of being at a conference dedicated to information and communications through language, when one of the first strategic moves of the US Colonial Settler government, in it's attempts to commit ongoing genocide again all Indigenous Peoples, on Turtle Island, was to outlaw the language of Chief Seattle and the Duwamish, forbidding them to speak their native tongue and therefore, to make sense of the world and the fullness thereof.  As Information Architects, we can not imagine a worse fate.

 

We, the Settlers who support this project in its fullness, aim to try to balance the collective karmic which arose from the deliberate tactic of asymmetrical information and its subsequent, ongoing, withholding of essential information.