Marcus Briggs-Cloud

Maskoke
Ekvn-Yefolecv

Marcus Briggs-Cloud (Maskoke) is a language revitalizer, scholar, musician and co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv: an off-grid, climate-positive, income-sharing ecovillage compromised of Maskoke People who, after 180 years of displacement, returned to their homelands for the revitalization of their language and culture, and commitment to ecologically regenerative lifeways. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has a PhD in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment where his work intersected ecology, linguistics, genetics, ecofeminism and liberation theology. Marcus serves on the board of directors of Cultural Survival, an NGO defending Indigenous Peoples' rights globally. He is partnered to Tawna Little (Maskoke) and they have two children, Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.