i shouldn't have to ask you not to want to hurt me. are you engaging to hurt me, or to collaborate with me?

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ostracize wendigo culture
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ostracize wendigo culture
ostracize wendigo culture
ostracize wendigo culture

(Braiding Sweetgrass)
Skywoman seems to look me in the eye and ask, in return for this gift of a world on Turtle's back, what will I give in return?

It was through her actions of reciprocity, the give and take with the land, that the original immigrant became indigenous.

"we must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects" - Thomas Berry (Braiding Sweetgrass)