Boozhoo Anishinaabeg. My name is Trevor Swoverland. I grew up in northern Wisconsin and I currently live in northeastern Minnesota. My people arrived here from the Highlands of Scotland, the southwestern part of Ireland, and near the Black Forest in Germany. I have written this to you because I am in your debt, and I [...]
By Honor Schauland The idea that we are separate from the land and the ecosystems we live in is hilarious. How can we possibly be separate? I live in an ecosystem. I am an ecosystem. I travel through many ecosystems in a day or in a week. I am made up of many ecosystems. My [...]
By Trevor Swoverland In my last essay Tribe as the Foundation for the Reconstruction of Heathenry I wrote about how our experiences in the Nordskogen Stamme have really driven home for us the importance of rebuilding tribal relationships and identity in the effort to reconstruct pre-conversion Germanic worldview and lifeways. We have also written essays [...]
By Trevor Swoverland There have been several threads on the Facebook group associated with this website recently in which the idea of reconstituting tribal relationships in the effort to reconstruct Germanic tribal spiritualities that existed prior to colonization and conversion has been looked at as unnecessary or even toxic by some participants. While most of [...]
by Crystal Shilling Originally posted on realheathenry.com For two thousand years Christianity has spread across the Old World and into the New World with great fierceness. Much of the ancient world is lost because of this and yet some things have survived or have been discovered. In the modern world, our culture is saturated with [...]
This article is a follow-up to a previous one written by Trevor Swoverland, with the link to that first article in the first paragraph below. It provides an anecdotal experience of home with a consideration of the tendency to equate urbanization and success in the overculture. In a recent piece (Colonized Colonizers: The Consequences of [...]
This piece written by Honor Schauland is a beautiful reflection on a subsistence activity endemic in this region we call home, and it touches on the spiritual depth of life close to the land and close community. It is a lovely description of a particular human ecology that shares ideas generalizable to other regions in [...]
This piece, written by Trevor Swoverland, considers the complexity of the colonization of populations of European migrants and how the process of being colonized by imperial powers has placed many descendants of European migrants to these shores in the position of being descended from both colonized peoples and colonizers; additionally, forces of colonization continue to [...]
3/25/2019 This article, written by Lee Gregsson, is an effort to share the collective understanding of worldview according to the families that constitute the Nordskogen Stämme. Our Stämme (tribe) feels that there are some important aspects of a traditional and functional heathen worldview that are commonly missed, or even argued against. As such we have [...]
By Michael Spires 3/19/2019 There was once a people, a people in possession of learned and scientific mind. They turned from the ways of those who came before, and instead of worshipping the gods and goddesses, they worshipped a philosophy. They worshipped Progress. This philosophy, this Cult of Progress served the people well. New innovations [...]
Decolonizing Heathenry 