Further Reflections on the Pow Wow

Further Reflections on the Pow Wow One cannot hear the drums nor watch the young dancers bedecked in hoof rattles and colorful bird feathers without, upon returning home, listening closer to the whispers across the meadow. Are these the whispers of those who for 10,000 years walked the paths I follow daily, camped along what… Read more »

Stewardship and the Western European Way

Tree Person and grafted valley oaks. Stewardship and the Western European Way Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux scholar, questions the concept of stewardship. It implies “taking care of” or “managing”, not being in dialogue with or balance, yet another version of western European “dominion over.” It is also a word I remember from my early childhood… Read more »