https://tribeawaken.com/journal/ Human resilience to cross hard ground. Ancient tools for future-proofing generations. en-us Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:19:07 +0000 https://tribeawaken.com/journal/why-i-started-a-magazine-again/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/why-i-started-a-magazine-again/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 It began in 2021 under a different name. Five years later there are two novels out, a doctorate underway, and the same stubborn idea: that what a people reads every morning decides something. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/speak-only-what-you-want-built/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/speak-only-what-you-want-built/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 My great-grandmother corrected careless speech the way she corrected a tool set down in the wrong place. Forty years later I understand why they were the same error. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/wanting-narrows-the-eye/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/wanting-narrows-the-eye/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 My grandfather never had money and was never poor a day in his life. Abundance turns out to be a question about perception, not arithmetic. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/stone-breath-has-gone-out-to-the-world/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/stone-breath-has-gone-out-to-the-world/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Stone Breath has entered worldwide distribution: Apple Books, Kobo, booksellers from Berlin to Sydney. One universal link reaches all of it. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-coach-who-borrowed-the-circle/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-coach-who-borrowed-the-circle/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Phil Jackson put silence, story and a circle into the most pressured organization in American sport and won 72 games. He had to borrow the pieces. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/all/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/all/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Every piece of writing at TribeAwaken, newest first, with its date and its stream. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-first-fire/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-first-fire/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 About twenty people came to the meditation. What they got was not a meditation. It was a crossing with a destination, and at the far end they were expected. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-winter-that-didnt-come/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-winter-that-didnt-come/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A Sámi reindeer herder, taught properly and entirely correct, standing on ice. What to do when the knowledge itself is no longer true. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-a-far-messenger-is/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-a-far-messenger-is/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 It is book four. It is the doctorate. And it is the thing I have been circling my whole life without knowing what to call it. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-ground-is-the-argument/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-ground-is-the-argument/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 I wrote a novel about what a people build after the extraction economy runs out. Then I watched farmers and Indigenous leaders build it, on real ground. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/stone-breath-born-on-the-solstice/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/stone-breath-born-on-the-solstice/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A novel about the songs we carry across oceans — and the roots that a lifetime of forgetting could never take. Released on the solstice, on purpose. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/they-tried-to-erase-a-whole-people/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/they-tried-to-erase-a-whole-people/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Book smugglers, song keepers, and a basketball team in tie-dye. The story of a people who were supposed to vanish and came back singing. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/tibet-the-unbroken-thread/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/tibet-the-unbroken-thread/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A people is not its territory — it is the thread: the language, the prayer, the way of raising children. Reflections from Machik Weekend in New York, and what the Tibetan community in exile teaches all of us about carrying wisdom across hard ground. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/twenty-five-years-to-the-podium-prescott-commencement/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/twenty-five-years-to-the-podium-prescott-commencement/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 I started this doctorate as an extension of my MBA more than twenty-five years ago. Last year I gave the PhD commencement address at Prescott College. Here is what happened in between — and what I found when I arrived a few days early. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-the-cottonwood-sings-roots-workshop/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-the-cottonwood-sings-roots-workshop/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 In a gallery full of grief and color, a room of strangers became a circle. I picked up a pen for the first time and wrote my way back. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/one-in-a-trillion/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/one-in-a-trillion/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Invited to Abundance Week at Rancho La Puerta to meet Tom Blue Wolf and Pat Mitchell — and the hour under the papel picado that came of it. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-ancestral-code-for-living-to-100/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-ancestral-code-for-living-to-100/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Across the world, the peoples who reach a hundred are not lucky — they are living a code their ancestors wrote into food, movement, purpose, and song. We did not lose it. We stopped reading it. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/ai-robotics-repair-warming-world/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/ai-robotics-repair-warming-world/ Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A warming planet is asking hard questions. What if the intelligence we built to speed up extraction could be turned, deliberately, toward repair? https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-silent-theft/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-silent-theft/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 We track every barrel, every dollar, every ton — and let the one irreplaceable resource evaporate: human genius. This is the anatomy of a silent theft, and the map back to an honorable harvest. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-final-council-post-extraction-future/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-final-council-post-extraction-future/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 A recurring dream of a council that vets the future before it is built, and a blueprint for encoding reciprocity into AI, robotics and the next economy. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/seeds-of-the-ancestors/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/seeds-of-the-ancestors/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000 The blueprint for a sustainable future is not a new invention waiting to be engineered. It is an ancient inheritance waiting to be remembered. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/walking-in-lightness-eating-in-balance/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/walking-in-lightness-eating-in-balance/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Navigating the complex terrain between global economic systems and the specific needs of Indigenous communities has been the defining work of my life. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/monster-slayer-blueprint-turning-waste-into-renewal/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/monster-slayer-blueprint-turning-waste-into-renewal/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Every people on Earth descends from a line of monster-slayers. The take-make-dispose economy is the beast of our age, and the tools are older than it. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/weaving-a-new-dream-what-is-the-world-dreaming-through-you/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/weaving-a-new-dream-what-is-the-world-dreaming-through-you/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000 We are taught to chase our own dreams. But there is an older, larger dream — the dream of the land itself — and it is trying to move through you. This is what it asks. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/hitting-the-healing-trails-with-navajo-humor/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/hitting-the-healing-trails-with-navajo-humor/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 In the land where the sun kisses the earth, And the winds whisper ancient tales, https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-warriors-path/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-warriors-path/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Stepping out of grad school with an MBA and a vision to transform a nation, and what the years actually taught me about the warrior's path. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-water-remembers-sacred-lake/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-water-remembers-sacred-lake/ Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 My grandfather stood at the edge of a mountain lake and was called to sing an old song. What he taught me there: water has a memory, and so do we. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/facing-the-changing-climate/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/facing-the-changing-climate/ Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Ya’at’eeh, Relatives. As global temperatures rise, the way we cultivate food is undergoing significant changes. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/wealth-wisdom-from-sheepherders-of-the-planet/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/wealth-wisdom-from-sheepherders-of-the-planet/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Across the herding peoples of the earth, wealth was never counted in currency but in flocks, dawns, clan bonds, and resilience that outlasts a drought. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/roots-of-resilience-wisdom-week-rancho-la-puerta/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/roots-of-resilience-wisdom-week-rancho-la-puerta/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 Under the stars at Rancho La Puerta, elders and strangers became a circle. A week on how healing begins the moment we are truly seen. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/creating-traditional-inter-generational-wealth/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/creating-traditional-inter-generational-wealth/ Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 The richest people I know own almost nothing a bank would recognize — and everything the great-grandchildren will need. A meditation on the wealth that is grown, not extracted, and passed down whole. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/ancient-farming-hedge-against-climate-change/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/ancient-farming-hedge-against-climate-change/ Thu, 09 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 Across the drylands of the world, a handful of master farmers still coax miracle harvests from wind and sand using knowledge older than any market. As the climate shifts, their methods may be one of humanity's best hedges — if we help the young stay to inherit them. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/honoring-my-father-on-fathers-day/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/honoring-my-father-on-fathers-day/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 A son's letter to the father who took him as his own — a city boy who followed love to the high country, learned the old ways, and became a pillar. A tribute to every dad who carries a family quietly on his back. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/honorable-trade-oldest-economies-planet-in-transition/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/honorable-trade-oldest-economies-planet-in-transition/ Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 For ten thousand years, whole continents ran on economies built not for shareholder wealth but for honor, love, and excitement. As the globe searches for a way through climate change, these time-tested systems hold a map — and it is not too late to read it. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/long-lives-as-modeled-by-our-ancestors/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/long-lives-as-modeled-by-our-ancestors/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000 TribeAwaken joins Northern Arizona University's Department of Health Sciences on improving the health and well-being of Native communities. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/overcoming-fear-and-limiting-beliefs/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/overcoming-fear-and-limiting-beliefs/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 As a kid, I grew up in a modest traditional Navajo home far from the city and mainly with livestock and no electricity. A lot of times we would stay at sheep camp with grandparents all summer long and my cousin Alex would stay with us. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/time-tested-tribal-tools-against-the-coronavirus/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/time-tested-tribal-tools-against-the-coronavirus/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Many of you have questions about the pandemic and it seems the more you read and research, the more confused you get. What do we do to stay safe? What are the best ways to strengthen our immune system?How do we prepare if someone in our family, household, or we catch the virus? https://tribeawaken.com/journal/in-a-spa-state-of-mind/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/in-a-spa-state-of-mind/ Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000 What is a wellness spa? The word spa conjures up images of mud baths, soothing facials, relaxing massages, and rejuvenating body scrubs. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/advantage-inside-vantage-outside/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/advantage-inside-vantage-outside/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Inspiration from an interview with Gary Vaynerchuk, Entrepreneur and Author https://tribeawaken.com/journal/a-magazine-to-uplift-our-community/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/a-magazine-to-uplift-our-community/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000 A Conversation with the Founder of “the Abundance Mindset Magazine” Magazine https://tribeawaken.com/journal/from-sheep-to-the-customer/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/from-sheep-to-the-customer/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000 Native Grill serves “Navajo soul food” to travelers along Highway 89 and to their loyal customers in Cameron, Arizona. Alfreida Littleboy and her mother started their business in 2013 and pursued their business license in 2016. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/triumph-tiger-1200-xca-biker-review/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/triumph-tiger-1200-xca-biker-review/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000 The founder of TribeAwaken.Com, Tony Skrelunas, wanted to share his passion for motorcycles with others who may be inspired to also try out a bike. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/buy-navajo-buy-local/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/buy-navajo-buy-local/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000 On buying Navajo and buying local: why keeping the dollar home in a community is economics, not sentiment, and what it builds when it stays. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/seven-point-tribal-review-economic-transition/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/seven-point-tribal-review-economic-transition/ Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Tribal communities such as Hopi, Navajo, and Crow are being impacted by the transition away from coal fired power generation to more economical alternatives. In northern Arizona, in Navajo and Hopi, many families were very proud to have a son or a daughter with a good-paying job from which many benefited. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/a-business-must-pivot-with-care/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/a-business-must-pivot-with-care/ Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Our oral histories tell of times that almost destroyed our people. In every one, survival turned on the same thing: how carefully the pivot was made. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/keeping-our-dollars-in-our-community/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/keeping-our-dollars-in-our-community/ Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Special to TribeAwaken to offer Economic Diversification Strategy to former coal and power plant communities https://tribeawaken.com/journal/inspiration-for-new-grocery-stores/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/inspiration-for-new-grocery-stores/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000 In the not too distant past, it was very common for many tribal elders to live to be over 100. In my Navajo culture, centenarians were celebrated and 102 years of age was a virtue to strive for and a blessing to bestow on friends and loved ones. This is why we use 102 yucca stems in our Winter Shoe Games. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/its-ok-to-take-the-lead/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/its-ok-to-take-the-lead/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000 As the founder of tribes.humans.net, it was a daunting task to pull all the pieces together. Talk about doing business all over the world, in big cities, working globally with investors, programmers, and experts. Working in different time zones and time clocks. To do it well and to take it this far, I had to go all in. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/exercise-and-the-many-benefits/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/exercise-and-the-many-benefits/ Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000 The two do not sound connected, but working out serves mental health as much as physical, and the combination is the whole point. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/30000-years-tribal-trade-americas/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/30000-years-tribal-trade-americas/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000 Tony Skrelūnas's commencement address to the Native American graduates of Northern Arizona University, on the great trade civilizations of the Americas. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-waking-up-early-did-for-me/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-waking-up-early-did-for-me/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000 What could waking early do for me and what do I hope to achieve in this tiny turnaround of life? Waking up early would allow me a more productive day, longer days, make me more successful in health and life, and maybe even make me feel better overall. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/were-running-out-of-sand/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/were-running-out-of-sand/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000 “Sand, sand is everywhere”, take a few steps outside and there’s sand right below your feet. Oh, it’s concrete? Yeah that’s sand too. Your phone? Melted sand. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-arranged-marriages-can-teach-us/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/what-arranged-marriages-can-teach-us/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000 What can we learn from our arranged marriages of the past in our modern day dating processes and eventual marriage of the right life partner? This article is to get conversation going. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/discipline-and-a-strong-life-partner/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/discipline-and-a-strong-life-partner/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000 What it takes to succeed under the kind of pressure most people could not handle, and the role a strong life partner plays in it. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-passage-of-cultural-knowledge/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/the-passage-of-cultural-knowledge/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000 The main meaning of being tribal is to completely engage in the value of ensuring that your kids, your relatives, your neighbors, your tribe succeed. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/helping-young-tribal-runners/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/helping-young-tribal-runners/ Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000 The question that hasn’t been asked is “is it possible to support talented runners in a supportive tribal community setting? And how could it be done?” https://tribeawaken.com/journal/keeping-the-tribal-dollar-home/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/keeping-the-tribal-dollar-home/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000 As a child growing up on the Navajo reservation at a placed called Big Mountain, I always looked forward to traveling to the Tonalea Trading Post. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/three-pillars-of-tribal-customer-service/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/three-pillars-of-tribal-customer-service/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Great customer service is good business and good for our culture. In the Navajo tradition, it comes down to 3 values: Woshdee, Bahozho, and K’enidzin. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/trading-goods-and-services-worldwide/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/trading-goods-and-services-worldwide/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Tribes.Humans.Net is a new platform we created as a peer to peer network to enable inter tribal trade within our communities and outside. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/refueling-our-souls-with-a-tribal-dacha/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/refueling-our-souls-with-a-tribal-dacha/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000 As an honorable tribal person searching for a strong foundation of family, we value a home in the community where we grew up. This enables us to maintain ties to the earth and family. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/in-the-mind-of-a-bull-rider/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/in-the-mind-of-a-bull-rider/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Bull riding, America’s fastest growing sport, one of America’s most dangerous sports, and one of Native America’s biggest sports. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/success-with-harmony-rise-early-pray-grind/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/success-with-harmony-rise-early-pray-grind/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000 You may ask yourself what does it take to succeed? There are many self help gurus in our world all offering good strategy from their experiences. https://tribeawaken.com/journal/creativity-makes-the-planet-go-round/ https://tribeawaken.com/journal/creativity-makes-the-planet-go-round/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000 To the Creative: Do what you love, enjoy what you do, make life worth it. It’s very cliché but it’s true.