"When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully
because we
know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath
the ground.
We never forget them. In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred. Everything
is for sale."
Oren R. Lyons is a traditional Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, and
a Member of the
Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy,
or the Haudenosaunee ("People of the Long House").
He is Professor of American Studies at the State University of New
York at Buffalo,
where he directs the Native American Studies Program.
Indigenous Native American Prophecy - Part 2
Indigenous Native American Prophecy - Part 3
Indigenous Native American Prophecy - Part 5
Oren Lyons: Value Change for Survival

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