When Native Leadership and Allyship Meet: Lessons from Making Cordage
Photo: Together Bay Area Spring Conference, May 13, 2026 at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA I have learned a great deal from making cordage. Cordage by itself is a braid of string, but when you wrap it around stalks of tule, it can make a boat. When you tie cordage around sticks of willow, it can make a house. Cordage, when applied, can be a useful vehicle of change and transformation. Cordage can also teach you how to collectively build power. As a program manager for Redbud’s...