Sent by a friend. REH
The bulldozer or backhoe ripping into the earth, rips into our hearts. Our inability to stop this destruction makes us feel as though we are failing our ancestors and our children. If you destroy the land, you destroy what we believe in, who we are. -- Quechan Nation President Mike Jackson In 2002, California's Quechan Nation had to stand against a proposal of a gold mine being opened near this Nation's most sacred site known as Indian Pass. To the Quechan Nation, the proposed gold mine would be disastrous. The Nation considers Indian Pass the life-blood of its culture, a place where ancestors are cremated and religious pilgrimages occur. Great Mystery Above, help me to see my connectedness to the Great Mother and be a defender of her greatness today. Not so long ago America stopped a Gold mine from being installed above Yellowstone National Park by a Canadian company. A proposal that would have drained into Yellowstone but even more important, set up the mine in one of the most geologically sensitive mega volcanoes in the world with an unknown calendar for the next civilization stopping eruption. What amazed me was that the geologists even considered it in the first place but after the tar sands and fracking it all begins to make sense in terms of the Western Concept of Sin. The West is having a doozy of a time with the concepts of property and responsibility to one's neighbors. It's destroying not only their morality and religion but their families and the concept of nation at all. The corporation and investment is the new family and the faith is to that "invisible hand" with the upraised third finger. REH
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