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Mona Polacca
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Grandmother Mona Polacca: Ancestral Voices in Defense of Biodiversity

Mona Polacca is a Hopi-Tewa/Havasupai elder and member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Grandmother Mona has a Masters degree in Social Work and serves in several United Nations indigenous issues committees.

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Mona Polacca
2012
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Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet

We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . .

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Carol Schaefer, Winona LaDuke (foreword)
2006
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Pray Every Day for the Waters of the Earth~

We live in water in our mother’s womb,’ Hopi grandmother Mona Polacca explains. ‘Moments before we come into this world, the water of our mother’s womb gushes out, and we follow behind. That is why the Hopi call water our first foundation of life.’

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Mystic Mamma
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Realizing Our Roots and the Power of Interconnectedness

In my upbringing, I was taught that everyone is my relative. That we are all relatives. My parents and grandparents instilled this value since I was a child and I notice that, without question, it helps me to see the value in each person and living thing.

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Mona Polacca
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13 Globe-Trotting Indigenous Grannies Carry Message of Unity and Prayer

Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity, and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca.

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Nicola Graydon
2001
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Mona Polacca + Marina Abramović: Rites and Rituals

Our world is shaped by ritual. Hopi/Havasupai/Tewa Grandmother Mona Polacca meets with the “grandmother of performance art” Marina Abramović to talk about the essential role that ritual, repetition, and durational experiences play in reminding of us of our relationships to all things.

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Mona Polacca
2018
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Moving into Right Relations with Mona Polacca

“Women are like a mirror image of Mother Earth. We feel her pain. These heartaches that we feel are part of the compassion that women have, and we need to act on that compassion.” Mona Polacca.

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Treesisters
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Grandmother Mona Polacca Blue Water: Hopi /Tewa and Havasupai - Traditional Knowledge

Grandmother Mona Polacca believes that her origins are as important as her name, Polacca, which means butterfly in the Hopi language. On her father's side, she a Hopi-Tewa from the Sun and the Tobacco Clans. It was her paternal grandfather who named her.

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Mona Polacca
2017
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Supai Hopi Mona Polacca: Water, Prayer and Humility

Mona Polacca, Havasupai/Hopi, spoke at the Rights of Mother Earth Conference, about the foundation of life. From the first water inside the mother’s womb, to the prayer upon which life depends, Polacca spoke of the spirituality of life.

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Brenda Norrell
2012
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Mona Polacca of the Thirteen Grandmothers Speaks About Taking Action

This video is an excerpt from the upcoming documentary ECO WARRIORS, which is a film about the issue of labeling environmental activists as 'terrorists'.

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Mona Polacca
2011
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