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Special Event - Book Launch
She Who Spins the Coils of Creation
with Leslene Della-Madre
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Leslene della-Madre is an author, poet, artist, feminist shamanic practitioner, birth doula, death midwife, Nature lover, truth seeker, feminist philosopher, independent scholar, mother and grandmother. A cousin of Einstein, she has challenged mainstream beliefs in patriarchal religions, physics, and cosmology which has been the focus of her latest book, She Who Spins the Coils of Creation: Sacred Female Cosmology in the Electric PlasMA Universe. Her first book, Midwifing Death: Returning to the Arms of the Ancient Mother was born from her experience of tending to the dying after spending many years as a birth doula. She is the co-editor and contributing author of Trauma-Informed Care, addressing military sexual trauma of women veterans. She was born and raised in the Bay Area in California, graduating from UC Berkeley in 1969 and embarked on a deeply spiritual path during the historic "flower child" era. During that time, she began her shamanic initiation into the realms of mind, body, and spirit and received many teachings from people, plants, and encounters with the spirit world and living in intentional community for eleven years.
She established a center for shamanic healing, Winged Women Return, in Sebastopol CA, nearly forty years ago offering feminist shamanic teachings, classes, individual sessions, ceremony and rituals for life passages.
It is her vision to see the end of patriarchy.
“Leslene has an important message and many people need to hear it.” The late Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, the oldest member of her tribe, the Takelma and chairwoman of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.
Special Event
Revitalizing Our Roots. Sharing Lived Experiences in Archaeomythology and Citizenry Sciences Today.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Hayden Mayorga, chief of the Talamanca Bribri Territory, Layli Moreno of the Bribri Finca Loroco also in Talamanca, Joan Marler of the Institute of Archaeomythology (IAM), María Suárez Toro of the Institute of Citizenry Sciences of the Sea (iNMAR Caribe) and Ambasadors of the Sea in Talamanca’s Caribbean Coast and Julian Schönau of Germany living in the The Netherlands.
They will share their experience in the Venlo Matriarchies for the Future from June 3-6, 2025. Where they will share their Lived Experiences in revitalizing women’s powers in our contexts, territorios and societies, past and present towards shared horizons among women and men.
Haiden Mayorga will present her lived experience: "From Bribri Girl to Territorial Authority: A Story of Female Resistance and Leadership Between the Matriarchal Legacy and the Challenges of Contemporary Patriarchy."
Layli Moreno will address "Lived experience in matrilineality in Bribri Farming in Finca Loroco"
Joan Marler will address "Lived experience with Marija Gimbutas: Seven years of archaeomythology in action."
María Suárez Toro will address "Lived Experience in the construction of a matristic perspective in Ambassadors of the Sea Children’s Pedagogy of the Ocean."
Special Book Event
Barbara Alice Mann
Indigenous Struggles in the United States The Divide-and-Conquer Strategy of "Federal Recognition"
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Barbara Alice Mann, is a Ph.D. scholar and Professor in the Honors College of the University of Toledo, in Toledo, Ohio, USA. She has authored fifteen books, the latest of which are President by Massacre: Indian-Killing for Political Gain (2019) and Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America (2016). Other works include The Tainted Gift (2009), on the deliberate spread of disease to Natives by settlers as a land-clearing tactic. Dr. Mann is currently working on an international project examining historical massacres, around the world 1780–1820, and is participating in book project on that. Her internationally noted Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (2001, 2004, 2006) is in its third printing. Two other internationally known books include George Washington’s War on Native America (2005, 2007), Daughters of Mother Earth (2006, out in paperback as Make a Beautiful Way, 2008). She has published over 400 articles and chapters since 1995. She lives in her homeland and works for the rights of the people indigenous to Ohio, living in Ohio. (“Ohio” is a Seneca word meaning “Beautiful River,” a spiritual designation.) An Ohio Bear Clan Seneca, with community recognition, she was for twenty years the Speaker and/or Northern Director of the Native American Alliance of Ohio.