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Water Of Life
“So perhaps change is less about fixing a broken world and more about uncovering hidden wholeness in all events, all organizations and all people and remembering our personal power to make a difference.”
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
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We have unwritten laws that were here before the (White) people came. . . Our laws were set down by the Creator. . . We’re taught when we’re little, when we go up into the mountains we don’t break the trees or pick the plants or do anything. We pick the fruit, but we don’t disturb anything that we’re not supposed to because that’s something that we’re taught to respect. . . The Creator says, “I give you this. You take care of it. If you don’t then I’ll take it back.” . . . We don’t just catch the fish any time we feel like it. Water is given to us as part of our lives. It’s part of our lives. From the time you’re little till you go on to the other world, you’re gonna use that water. You’re gonna thirst for it. The food that’s in that water, you have to take care of it; how sacred it is, how important it is to us. I don’t only speak for my people, I speak for all people. . . This timber is the clean air that you breathe and the clean water that you drink. Without this timber you’re not gonna have no clean air. The wind blows and cleans the air through this timber, all is fresh. We’re taught by our elders, “Don’t burn the forest. Don’t cut it out…
