where “green” means an advertising slogan, not a meadow.
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I can’t return salmon to the river, and my neighbors would raise the alarm if I set fire to my yard to produce pasture for elk.
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use your gifts and dreams for good,” the same instructions we all carry
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Perhaps the Skywoman story endures because we too are always falling.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
Whether we jump or are pushed, or the edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into someplace new and unexpected.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.
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bauble of colorful “folklore
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Most of my students have never heard the origin story of this land where they were born,
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It’s not just land that is broken, but more importantly, our relationship to land
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In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom