We love our relations

“The Parasites:
I believe Western European culture will never endure in the Americas. I believe it is only a passing phase like the hoola hoop or the skate board. I also believe that the peoples living in the Americas will become American; that they will have to in order to survive in America. That means that a truly American culture will evolve-is evolving-in the Americas, a culture which is not a European import, nor an adaptation of an European import. That means that the sons and daughters of immigrants who strove for over four hundred years to posses the Americas will be possessed by the Americas; the descendants of those who tried to conquer and subdue the Americas will be conquered and subdued by the Americas. It means that the stubborn land pioneers cleared and cursed will be loved, respected, and revered by the great grandchildren of pioneers. And the native creatures of that land will also be loved and fostered, including the original American Human: the Indian.”-Wilfred Pelletier and Ted Poole, from No Foreign Land: The Biography of a North American Indian.

Cosmic Rains of the black sky tribe tending to the needs of the earth mother and her children.

This is what I have been shown by spirit… at our lodge at the cedar house so many years ago, doing ceremony with my tribe, we black sky people… when bioregional animism was being born in my visions and in our relationships. I saw how the Earth this land gave form to the body, the mind the spirit and the cultures of the people… how new tribes were forming peoples spirits where waking up to the reality that they are the place they live, they are the people of the land and sky they live within…
I was shown this clear as day… I could feel the land reaching up through us giving us form and instruction on how to live, how to bee kin, how to be family and live in a good way. I still see this and feel this… and I am seeing it in the people I share this vision with.
I am going to going on a long walk in the not to distant future this fall… looking for my people and seeking new skills… and visiting the members of the black sky tribe where ever the four winds have taken you with the hope to bring you back to the Puget Sound eventually so we can co-create a village with the land.

This is happening...

You better learn...

Posted in Excerpts by Renee Davis on March 13th, 2008
From an interview by Derrick Jensen with Thomas Berry:
“How does the wind speak to us? A biting wind on a winter’s day tells the person of harshness and the challenge of existence. It wants to make a person strong. And the softness of a summer breeze tells us of the compassionate dimension of the universe.
“People say,’Oh, that’s poetic. That’s romantic’. But that’s the most scientific thing there is. If someone says to me, ‘I don’t hear the voice of the wind,’ I say, ‘You better learn.’
The earths voices are heard...