We Will Not Forget.

We will not forget that you are our Mother, (Mother) Nature, the great womb from which all life springs. Millions upon billions of souls have labored to enter into your world in the hopes that eyes might absorb your majestic beauty, so that hands might touch the tender new buds of spring ~ soft ~ weeping with mornings' dew. Each soul waiting for that first precious sound which stirs the body to life. We ~ will not forget. We will not forget that you are the Great Wayshower of Sacred Law. We learn about the Great Law of Life, Death and Rebirth from surviving our first Autumn, resplendent with crimson ~ ochre leaves floating to the earth blanketing it from winters clinging snows. Then, miracle upon miracle, Spring ~ and Life bursts through the last remaining snows. Skeleton trees, death totems framed against the sky, breath with new Life flowing through their veins and emerald buds promise a future. We Understand. We are the 'tree of life' and are reborn into your arms in the season of the soul. The four legged's, the two legged's, the winged spirits and those who swim through your birthing waters are one of

the greatest gifts you have given the People. We have watched our allies in wonder ~ and then ~ in understanding. We have learned that every living being is necessary ~ for each identifies an aspect of the psyche of the People. However, with knowledge comes some sorrow for we have also learned that with the extinction of any species ~ so too has one aspect of our psyche become extinct. Some potential for the Human Soul has become Extinct. When we endanger the existence of any living thing so to do we endanger the evolution of our very soul. They give their lives that we may live, they share their spirit that we may evolve. All life is sacred and we give thanks when one of them must fall that we may live. Someday, we too will return to the earth and feed new life. We have learned ~ this is the Way of the Great Circle. So we will Remember. The Earth does not belong to the People, the People belong to the Earth. From the Earth we are born ~ to the Earth we shall return. Your soil is consecrated ground and we will sing our songs and tell our stories to show our children that the dust beneath their feet is the ashes of their ancestors. We will remember that the blood of our Ancestors course through your mighty rivers. Your crystal waters quench our thirst, carry our canoes and their rippling mummers speak of the memories of our People. We will show our

children that the flow of Life is Sacred and to treat the waters as we would our own blood. We will remember that the air is precious and through its spirit all life is supported. The winds that give us our first breath also receive our final sigh. And, if we listen, the four winds will speak to us of our past and our future ~ of what is below and what is above. We will show our children that the air is Sacred and to listen to the whispering among the leaves. Above all, we will remember that all Life is connected. All that lives are allies in our beingness. There are beasts and beings that give their lives for us and those that show us about ourselves by showing us their Ways. We do remember ~ our blood remembers ~ for we are born of Turtle Island. We are the Warriors of the Rainbow who will lead the Peoples of the Earth into an awareness of the Sacredness of 'All That Is' and lead them into a New Age. Written by: Eutonnah V. Olsen Dunn As Published in: 'Gatherings' ~ The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples As the smoke rises, Announcing our Prayers to "All That Is",

Let those that may, Hear.