"Being Indian is mainly in your heart.
It's a way of walking with the earth
instead of upon it.
A lot of the history books
talk about us Indians in the past tense,
but we don't plan on going anywhere...
We have lost so much, but the thing that
holds us together is that we all belong to
and are protectors of
the earth;
that's the reason for us being here.
Mother Earth is not a resource,
she is an heirloom."
David Ipinia, Yurok Artist, Sacramento, CA
http://www.echotacherokeewolfclan.com/id16.html
Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:43 pm