“We were placed here on Earth to be the guardians of Mother Earth,” he said.
Many Native Americans revere the inter-connectedness of the natural world. You can’t take action in one part of the environment and have no repercussions elsewhere, says Bob Gough, a descendant of the Lenape Tribe in Canada who is secretary of the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, a non-profit representing 15 tribes in the Upper Great Plain states. “We are all related,” so “you behave differently” and treat resources as part of a big family, he said..."
Native Americans and a Changing Climate | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
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