Marcus Briggs-Cloud

Maskoke
Ekvn-Yefolecv

Co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv. Ekvn-Yefolecv (ee-gun yee-full-lee-juh) is a climate-positive, income-sharing, intentional ecovillage community of Indigenous Maskoke persons who, after 180 years of having been forcibly removed from traditional homelands - in what is commonly/colonially known as central Alabama - have returned with unwavering commitments to: the revitalization of Maskoke language/culture, ecological restoration, regenerative agriculture, and natural building. Designed as a decolonization and reindigenization paradigm shift, we seek to exemplify a Just Transition from extractive economies to more equitable, culturally and ecologically regenerative lifeways, all while serving as a replicable archetype for other Indigenous communities to manifest in their own cultural responsive ways.