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Nature: Land


Already Medicine

Everything about us is already medicine; everything that has been given is healing

Beauty

Beauty in the expanse of the plains

Creation Stories

Human beings are creatures of the environment

Garden

Gardens bring us closer to the environment

Homeland

Health and wellness are embedded in the land

Homeland

Lakota country as a beautiful place

Into the Swamps

Swamp as a site of refuge and means of survial

Miracle Islands

Hawaiian islands as miracles of volcanism

No Nature

Loss of stories about nature due to loss of nature itself

Reservations

Reservations were created from the poorest land

Reservations

Land that was once beautiful is today without buffalo and fresh water

Reservations

Differences between living on a reservation and living in an urban area

Respect

Respect of plants equal to respect of onself and one’s relationship to the land

Responsibility

Critical in Hawai‘i is reestablishment of connection with the land

Stewardship

Relationships to the land drive state of health

Urban Indian

Cities destroy Native cultures

“Too Urban”

Differences between living on a reservation and living in an urban area