Death Is A Miracle Too
“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go…”
— Mary Oliver
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It’s only a matter of time until what Europeans call
“a major catastrophe of global proportions” will occur.
It is the role of American Indian peoples, the role of all natural beings, to survive.
A part of our survival is to resist.
We resist not to overthrow a government or to take political power, but because it is natural to resist extermination, to survive. We don’t want power over white institutions;
we want white institutions to disappear.
That’s revolution.
American Indians are still in touch with these realities — the prophecies, the traditions of our ancestors. We learn from the elders, from nature, from the powers. And when the catastrophe is over, we American Indian peoples will still be here to inhabit the…
