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As I see it all around me, the trees are dying out, our water is contaminated, and our air is not good to breathe. Those are the reasons why today I'm trying my best to come back to our ways of thousands of years ago.

We have to come back to the Native way of life. The Native way is to pray for everything, to take care of everything. Our Mother Earth is very important. We can't just misuse her and think she's going to continue. We can see what's taking place: the animal life, the tree life, even the water is telling us, but we're not paying attention to it.

We've been told to take care of what we've got so that we can leave something for the younger generation. We've tried to practice that from the beginning of our life, but we forgot our way.

"I never have spoken out until lately here, the Spirit coming to me and telling me, "Well, you are going to have to give us a hand here". In a vision, not too many years ago, the water came to me and told me, "I'm going to look like water, but pretty soon nobody's going to use me". These words came from the water, the Spirit. Now I see that the water has been polluted everywhere you go, and pretty soon we're not going to be able to use it.

All living things like to enjoy clean water. The rocks right here, they want clean water. The tree life has to have clean water. We are all one life, and clean water is something we have to rely on.

We, the people, are going to have to put our thoughts together to save our planet here. We only have One Water... One Air... One Mother Earth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1292242 in Books
• Published on: 1994-12
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .68" h x 6.24" w x 8.98" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 268 pages

About the Author
Corbin Harney is an elder and spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone, a Native people indigenous to Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and California. Born in Idaho, his mother died a few hours after his birth, and he was raised by medicine people of the Owyhee Indian reservation.

Since 1957 he has worked with medicine women of Battle Mountain, Nevada, running the Sundance Ceremony, sweat lodges, and helping sick people. As a medicine person, he has also been working steadily to preserve and protect the sacred sites and burial grounds of his people. In addition, he has been instrumental in helping to stop nuclear testing on Shoshone land at the Nevada Test Site. Corbin has spoken to the British Parliament, groups in Switzerland, Asia, and throughout the United States.