

The Silent Theft: How the World Wastes Its Most Precious Resource—And How We Can Reclaim It
Note from the Author, Tony Skrelunas, MBA, Phd Candidate The stories in this article are not abstract to me. They are written on the faces of my relatives. I have uncles with the same quiet dignity and profound, nature-taught wisdom as Jerry. I have witnessed brilliant minds in my community, like Maya, slowly dim under the weight of systemic neglect. The Navajo Nation, my home, has been strategically overlooked for generations, its gifts to the world conveniently forgotten. A


The Final Council: Architecting a Post-Extraction Future for Economics and Technology
By Tony Skrelunas, MBA, Phd Candidate, Navajo/Lithuanian, Transitional Economic Leader Co-Founder of the Protectors of the Seventh Generation The Dream of the Protocol It begins with a dream. Not a gentle wish, but a solemn, recurring vision that arrives with the weight of prophecy. In it, I walk through a world both familiar and shattered by the legacy of a single, flawed operating system: an economics of extraction and a technology of domination. But from this silence, a ne


Seeds of the Ancestors: A Lithuanian-Navajo-Hopi Journey to Remember Our Food, Our Stories, and Ourselves
A Personal Prologue: The Global Ancestral Table My life's work exists at the intersection of global systems and ancestral wisdom. Currently, as part of my PhD research, I am deconstructing the very frameworks of sustainable development, arguing that the most resilient models are not new innovations, but ancient principles waiting to be remembered. This journey is the heartbeat of my heritage. I am Lithuanian, from a lineage of forest-dwellers and amber traders on the chilly s


Weaving a New Dream: What Is the World Dreaming Through You?
The meaning of dreams" Tony Skrelunas and the Red Road Journey team on World Dream Day [Author's Note: This reflection is inspired by my...















