Manda Kalimian – CANA Foundation
Manda Kalimian is the founder of the national non profit, CANA Foundation; as well as founder of Naturally Considerate™ a lifestyle brand of skincare & wellness products.
Manda owns The Rewilding Space; her sixteen acre private horse farm in Long Island where she holds educational and inspirational rewilding events. Manda is a co-founder of 7 Cedar Ranch Rewilding Retreat in Kansas; an immersive, personal and team rewilding experience incorporating indigenous teachings.
Manda is the co-founder of Saddle PAC, a federally registered political action committee committed to the humanitarian treatment of America’s wild horses, habitats and Indigenous people. She is also the C.E.O of White Feather Productions, an independent production company dedicated to educate and share the message and mission of Rewilding to save our horses, environment and world using digital media moving art.
Featured Co Presenter: Moses Brings Plenty
CANA Foundation Director of Relations & Rangeland Acquisitions, Co-Founder of 7 Cedar Ranch Rewilding Retreat, Lakota Spiritual Leader Moses provides a bridge to a spiritual & ecological perspective on a wide range of topics concerning the balance, management & protection of our global environment, ecology, plants, animal species & humankind. Moses is available for speaking opportunities, educational symposiums, seminars, lectures & public & private speaking engagements. As a Lakota, Moses lives and nurtures a unified, harmonious vision for the future of tribal America, all people and our earth, sky and animal relations.
CANA Foundation’s Director of Relations & Rangeland Acquisitions: Moses works to secure large tracts of private and reservation land for which to rewild the over 60,000 wild horses currently standing in BLM holding facilities, or are at risk of roundup across America.
● “The horse nation has suffered a fate the same as my people; we
were rounded up and put into holding facilities called reservations. The
age of the original horse is slipping away and along with them is a
knowledge and understanding that our ancestors have depended on for
thousands of years. We need them to teach us how to live again and how
to walk and live our prayer. All of our people needed them, now today,
the Horse Nation needs us.” - Mo Brings Plenty
Moses is a gifted musician and actor that uses these avenues to provide
accurate representations of Native peoples in mass media.
● Television credits: Paramounts “Yellowstone,” AMC’s “The American West,” “House of Cards,” and “Hell on Wheels.” Film credits include: Cowboys and Aliens, The Revenant, Rez Bomb, Hidalgo, Pirates of the Caribbean, The History Channel’s “Comanche Warrior” and “Who Killed Crazy Horse.” BBC’s “Custer’s Last Stand.”
Moses Brings Plenty is a tribally enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. He is a direct descendant of Brings Plenty; an Oglala Lakota Holy Man/ Chief who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn. On his mother’s side, Makes Room For Them, a Holy Man/ Chief who was married to Sitting Bull’s sister, Good Feather. Moses is a Lakota who is dedicated to defending & rewilding the true culture and traditions of the tribal way of life.
● As a spiritual leader, Moses works toward helping people of all ages, races, cultures and ethnicities through traditional Lakota ceremony and prayer. He is a proactive visionary for the preservation, continuation and revitalization of a way of life that so many who have come before him have sacrificed to create.
● Moses Co-Founded 7 Cedar Ranch Rewilding Retreat in Bucyrus,
Kansas to welcome all people to visit and learn indigenous
understandings of the relationship between the buffalo and wild horse
nations and how they can help to rewild both habitats and our collective
humanity.
“Any destruction to the animals is a destruction to the environment.
Which will then lead to the extinction of the human race. The great
creator did not create the planet just for plants alone, or animals
alone, or for human beings alone. The planet was created for all. And we
need all to be healthy and protected.” -Mo Brings Plenty.
Locust Valley, NY
United States
Website: http://www.canafoundation.org
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/cana_foundation/
Workshop(s)
Workshop 1: How Rewilding America’s Wild Horses Helps Save Habitats & Humanity
This would be a presenter or roundtable discussion format.
In this talk, Manda and Moses will explore the gap between indigenous understandings of nature and its application in a modern world, and how rewilding has a broad scale of applications to humans, animals and the world we share together. Manda will also share why specific animals and wild horses in particular can not only help to provide environmental but also, spiritual balance. Moses will share Lakota specific understandings of natural law and harmonious living. We have much to learn in how to extend the successful rewilding movement into North America and delve into why Indigenous people, as the original stewards of our land, are a key component to a sustainable future for the world.
