Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2019-04-09T15:00:00+00:00

Standing Bear was also a critic of European-American society generally, in words appreciating nature and his forefathers and foremothers that recall those of Sea’thl (Seattle), three-quarters of a century earlier. Standing Bear also evoked the same sacred tree of life that was familiar to Black Elk:

The white man does not understand the Indian for the reason that he does not understand America. He is too far removed from its formative processes. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped the rock and soil. The white man is still troubled with primitive fears; he still has in his consciousness the perils of this frontier continent. … He shudders still with the memory of the loss of his forefathers upon its scorching deserts and forbidding mountain-tops. The man from Europe is still a foreigner and an alien. And he still hates the man who questioned his path across the continent.17 ← 135 | 136 →

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