Office of the 3 Sisters — Wiki

This wiki is the knowledge base for the Office of the 3 Sisters (o3s.foundation) — a non-profit weaving Indigenous Andean reciprocity (Ayni) into on-chain primitives on Optimism. Agents crawl from this index: follow category sections in order, resolve pages via the titles listed below, and consult Glossary — Quechua-Kichwa and Office Terms whenever encountering unfamiliar terminology.

Concepts

  • Ayni — Defines Ayni as the Kichwa/Runa Shimi principle of sacred reciprocity — the ethic that transforms gratitude into collective action for the sources of life — and describes how the Office enacts it through ceremony, role structure, and community contribution practices.
  • Alli Kawsay — Explains Alli Kawsay as community well-being understood as a living field of relationship, covering all seven current pathways and the Five Listening Seeds of Rimanakuy used to tend each pathway.
  • Rimanakuy and Minga — Covers Rimanakuy (ceremonial consensual knowledge-sharing that cultivates Yachay through relationship) and Minga (a time-bounded working band for direct community action), including the four core Rimanakuy paths and Minga formation rules.
  • Medicine Wheel Spiritual Container — Describes the Office's six-day ceremonial and creative cycle, how four such cycles nest within one lunar cycle, how 13 cycles compose the annual program calendar, and how each cycle counts as one CoALA college credit unit.
  • Wasi, Sacha, and the Kichwa Ecological Role Schema — Defines the Kichwa ecological framework (Wasi, Sacha, Yachay, Wasiyuk, Wasikamayuk, Wasi Runa, Rikchay, Kunan), maps each term to Office roles, and clarifies their use as degree stages in the CoALA program.
  • Personal Sovereignty and Narrative Sovereignty — Presents the Office's foundational recognition of each participant as a sovereign being with authority over their body, identity, beliefs, and story, and describes how Ayni and Rimanakuy operationalize sovereignty through consent and harm-repair pathways.

Programs

  • Earth Stewardship Program — Documents the broad community participation pathway for people who want to support Office work in a concrete, relational, ongoing way; covers entry, the seven Alli Kawsay pathways, and the nested Community Research Keepers and Community Research Stewards circles.
  • CoALA and the Hampina Path — Describes CoALA (Cooperative Authentic Learning Association) as an alternative to colonial college systems and details the Hampina (Associates-level) stage, knowledge steward roles, and the full four-stage degree progression (Hampina → Wasi → Sacha → Yachay).
  • HWSY — Hampina Wasi Sacha Yachay — Introduces HWSY, the Middle Sister, as a living sanctuary for Indigenous ways of knowing and spiritual research that honors knowledge carried by over 4,000 living Indigenous languages.
  • Center for Decolonial Reparatory Research (CDRR) — Introduces CDRR, the Youngest Sister, as a research center advancing decolonial reparatory work, defining genocide as a governing logic of conditional survival and explaining why community-sponsored research independent of dominant institutions is essential to its integrity.

Roles

  • Follow Through Keeper — The witness who debriefs with the Vision Keeper after community check-ins and Tending the Living Day sessions to carry what surfaced into action; currently held informally by Truman. Status: in development.
  • Community Research Keepers — Documents the Community Research Keepers role and Circle, covering the three core commitments (financial stabilization, attention, integration and acknowledgment), update cadences, and consent expectations. Status: in discernment; piloting with Sjeanne BC.
  • Community Research Stewards — Describes Community Research Stewards as mentors and advisors to direct researchers, distinct from Community Research Keepers, typically with Indigenous research background. Status: open to be filled.
  • Circle Keepers — Describes Circle Keepers as the largest Office role by headcount (100+), tending circles within the broader community, with Community Research Keepers operating as a sum-group expression of this role.
  • Medicine Wheel Cycle Facilitator — Details the role that holds the program's ceremonial backbone across 52+ ceremonies per program year; currently single-pointed on Alana (Vision Keeper). Status: active.
  • Hampina Program Lead — Describes the role that holds the HWSY program, maintaining language-carrier relationships across the 4,000+ living Indigenous languages HWSY honors; flags the open question of dedicated leads for CoALA and CDRR. Status: in development.

Documents

  • Community Research Keepers Intake / Payment / Receipt Flow v0.1 — Operational seven-step manual intake flow for bringing a new Community Research Keepers member from verbal yes through contribution setup, orientation delivery, first check-in, and Office system record; includes introductory video outline and acceptance letter template.
  • Earth Stewardship Orientation — Community Research Keepers v0.2 — The publicizable orientation packet for the Earth Stewardship Program → Community Research Keepers pathway (first pilot Sjeanne BC); covers the one-page orientation path, full orientation packet, and internal steward notes on pilot decisions and open implementation choices.

Glossary

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