Can Man Save Mother Earth?/Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman -Blog Action Day
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"Some of them can see the writing on the wall. Others see it but they don’t give a dam. And others just don’t see it. All they can see is the Almighty dollar. You know, its like I say, it takes all kind of people to make up the world. And it’s a case of who’s going to be the strongest and who’s going do the work. Who’s gonna get it done. But it must be done. Otherwise, the whole world is, will come to an end.
You know that my people lived with a balance of nature all those thousands of years before the white man; and whenever they took something, they always gave something. And it worked out fine. And the white man came along and he just took, took, took. He’s been taking all these hundreds of years. Now after all these hundreds of years, now he’s realizing that he gotta start putting back. I mean he’s working like hell to put it back, but you got other people still taking."
The Almighty dollar means everything to them. They don’t realize that the Almighty dollar isn’t going to be worth anything to them if there’s no world to use it in."
Ric, A member of the Mohawk Nation 1980
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“We have values to live by that we can share with you. Because soon, we’ll all have to live different. We realize and we’d like you Americans to see that America is only two hundred years old. And when we see in America and its problems, it doesn’t have two hundred winters. America doesn’t even have another fifty winters. And I don’t speak of revolution when I see that change happening, I see evolution gonna happen on the Mother Earth.”
Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman 1980
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fekner
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Hey NotFooled,
About your above comment that the conversation never took place, would you care to wager on it?
You can hear both voices of Native Americans Indians, Ric, and Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, talking on my video that I personally recorded in the summer of 1980.
The URL is above or view Trail Markers at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC2bLLb_azc
or on my website:
www.johnfekner.com- J. Fekner
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NotFooled
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I don't believe that this conversation took place.
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NotFooled
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hutter
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Never saw this artist's work-Good article -Props to Current. Thanks!
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hutter
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fekner
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To leekfixer and trecoolata,
The title of my post comes from a personal conversation I had in 1980 with Ric, a Native American from the Mohawk Nation in upstate New York. Personally, the words he spoke on that day rang true at the time. I believe those words are still reverberating today and for future generations.
FYI: Below is another observation by Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman from 1980:
“We have values to live by that we can share with you. Because soon, we’ll all have to live different. We realize and we’d like you Americans to see that America is only two hundred years old. And when we see in America and its problems, it doesn’t have two hundred winters. America doesn’t even have another fifty winters. And I don’t speak of revolution when I see that change happening, I see evolution gonna happen on the Mother Earth.”
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daniellas
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Leekfixer, yes, if the world decides to explode or implode, we as a people have no control over that. That's obvious. However, man takes, takes and takes and never give back.
The point here is that the story is about respecting the land and living in balance with nature. Changing our ways can only be achieved by very hard work. Money alone will not make all the problems of the world go away.
Although I'm not an artist, I can respect individuals like Fekner and other poets, writers and musicians who act as a catalysts and communicators for change.
Today is a great day for Mother Earth!
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daniellas
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trecoolatta
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This is very true LeekFixer. Mother nature with continue to go on without us whether we want to realize it or not.
The challenge is going to be getting a nation that is so focused on buzz words like "flatscreen", "bmw", "mcdonalds", and "cheesecake factory" to reconnect with the planet that produces Maslow's most primary of basic needs: food and shelter.
Unfortunately we're not the only nation to blame, although we are the most reputable for being creatures of excess laziness (and have the obesity stats to prove it).
I'm hoping we can start educating more people at an exponential rate of what they can do to start giving back to the planet so we can squeak out a win against global warming...we still have to have some smart people left in this world, right?
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trecoolatta
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leekfixer
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What is at issue is can humankind save itself from extinction. Mother Earth couldn't care less whether or not Homo sapiens continues to exist on the planet or not. Look what she did to the dinosaurs.
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leekfixer
