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Too Heavy to Fly
Anishinaabe tradition teaches that when you create something, you’re not just creating for the moment — you’re creating for the future as well. We learn to make decisions from a seventh-generation perspective…It’s taught a couple of ways: One is to consider how each decision you make will impact others and the Earth seven generations in the future. We’re also taught to consider the impact of decisions in the context of the three generations that came before you, your own generation, and the three generations ahead of you: Will it honor your past and lay the foundation for a good future?
— B. L. Blanchard
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In the prophecy it talks about the rattle, when it shakes, it is a warning. What we know in our holy places here, the holy places are rumbling at what is happening in the world and in the country. But the prophecy goes on to say that one day it is not going to rumble anymore. When that day comes, that means we have destroyed everything.
What frightens us as native people is we’re seeing the rattlesnake begin to grow without rattles.
— Wendsler Nosie, Sr, Apache
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The whole rhythm of North American life is too hectic for a woman. It damages women more than men. It’s not good for men either, but it damages women even more.
