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Another thing I try to do in my camps is to awaken people to make an act of power, to remind them they can empower themselves through their own personal work, for their planet and All Our Relations. And secondly, to make an act of  beauty, on whatever level they can to impact the world, whether they're teaching a kindergarten class, or starting a recycling program, or speaking  to a club they belong to. It's incumbent on them to do this much: I try to move people into action.

What I'm about in my life is helping to ensure that we survive as  a species. We're either all going to make it across the bridge to a new time of  harmony, or we're not going to make it at all. This is not unlike the image  of the miners in Pennsylvania who recently tied themselves together trapped at the bottom of the mine, declaring, “We either all live together, or we die together as a group.” This is a powerful image for us to hold at this time.  We all need to put our energy together in a good way to make a difference for  the planet and all life.

Many sacred truths are simply the ways of the land, the truth of how the Earth works. They may have been originally practiced by native peoples, but there can be no patent on those ways, because if we are going to have a world that is workable for human beings, and sustainable systems, we all need to learn and practice those Earth ways.              

In addition to Native American blood, I have a Celtic ancestry, too, and I regard the Irish and Scots as the  “Indians” of Europe, as Earth-based peoples. Their land ways, their understanding of trees and plants and herbs, all of those primary earth-based systems, ritual, ceremony, and magic were incredible suppressed. It thrills me to see people looking back and discovering the very same knowledge, the same herbalists and medicine women, and the same caring for their environment, in their northern European roots.              

We are so close to realizing these truthful ways of living in harmony. One of the great teachings that White Buffalo Woman brought was to remind us that Creator made us as one whole: we are one being. There is no separation, except in our thinking. So, to journey and make these profound movements in perception - to open our perceptions to the truth - is to know that we are connected and able to communicate with, and be in harmony with, all things in the circle of life. This is really the basic message of a sacred ecology. 

Brooke Medicine Eagle is a Native American metis - an Earth wisdom teacher, ceremonial leader, and author. Booksigning Malaprop's Bookstore on September 20; workshop at Grove Park Inn on September 21 in Asheville, NC. Call Betsy Powell 1-800-438-0050 ext. 1044.