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.
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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.
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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
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