For nearly 15 years I have shared my blog with so many of you around the planet and at home on Turtle Island, in part known as the USA. For most of my life, my true self questioned the nonsensible ways in which we live above the land rather than as part of the land. I have written books about my experiences in a capitalist society which subjugates our living relatives (trees, birds, insects, oceans and Mother Earth herself.) Indigenous knowledge has called me home for decades of my life since I was a child. Now, I leave you with this exceptional wisdom keeper, Robin Wall Kimmerer, who better than anyone I know, speaks the truth and points the way to living in new (ancient) ways that would help us find The Way out of madness by combining the indigenous way of knowing with the capitalist way of knowing. The present moment of madness in the U.S.A. is answered, and a path forward that is sustaining, and what we yearn for. All is contained in this keynote address presented recently at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. I leave you with Dr. Kimmerer’s wisdom, and I thank everyone for reading my blog over the years.
And here is another important voice from Indigenous America whom I greatly respect and is a worthy follow up to what Dr. Kimmerer is describing as a way forward. It is not lost on me that it is the women leaders whose voices are coming forward in response to the perils we now face.
Susan Feathers 