Thursday, April 06, 2006

In And Of Themselves

Don't know whether you've posted this before, but despite being about Western peoples, it gives an interesting perspective on what the sites may mean to those who 'use' them.

"SACRED LANDSCAPES ARE NOT SACRED BECAUSE NATIVE people believe they are. They are sacred in and of themselves. Even if we all die off, they will still be sacred," says Chris Peters, a Pohlik-lah tribal member and director of the Seventh Generation Fund, a Native advocacy foundation based in Arcata, California. "Over the course of time Native people have grown to understand there is power in these places--power that is significant to the entire ecosystem of all living things. The Earth is sacred and needs to be protected, and we as humans need to take responsibility to live in a sustainable way."

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