Rivers As Relatives: A 4-Part Series ~ Read Now
They teach us that ours is the first American democracy. They tell us we’re the land of the free. What they don’t say is that a highly sophisticated, fully functioning democratic government existed here for centuries before the first settler ever arrived. Our founding fathers…
The equinox arrives twice a year, and most of us barely notice. We might acknowledge it as the first day of fall or spring, but we miss the deeper meaning. Indigenous cultures have always known that these times are more than just marks on the…
The most beautiful expression of gratitude I’ve ever encountered isn’t a prayer or a poem—it’s the Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. I discovered it in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It offers something our…
They will tell you,
Look to nature
and feel that you are small.
But Nature will tell you,
Look to the sky
and know that You are vast.
Look to the ocean…
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