Taylor Keen - "Living Red" - From Ivy League to Sacred Seeds ... Indigenous Leader Finds Home

Taylor Keen has an astonishing resume: Golden Gloves boxer,
Dartmouth undergrad, Harvard MBA and Masters in Public
Administration. Business man. Indigenous leader, Strategy
consultant and full-time instructor in Corporate Strategy and
Entrepreneurship at Creighton University. But at his core, Taylor
is a storyteller. And the stories he tells are those of his
tribal people. Harvard did a magnificent feature on Taylor last
Dec titled, Singing To the Corn, where they wrote: “Corn thrives
when sung to and spoken to—something Taylor Keen does in the
language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison
Mane. Keen is also an active member of the Cherokee Nation, his
father’s people, where his tribal name is Blackberry. He grew up
between Omaha and the Cherokee reservation in northeastern
Oklahoma ..." IN 2014, Taylor founded Sacred Seed whose goal is
preserving Native American heritage in history through
collecting, growing and spreading the seeds of corn and other
traditional Native American foods. This incredible polymath has
seen a great deal and gained much wisdom, which he generously
shares on Swan Dive.


Watch Sacred Seed video

Recommended books on Indigenous Culture:


Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Custer Died for Your Sins

God is Red

Corn Among the Indians of the Upper Missouri

Braiding Sweetgrass









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