She accepted the gifts from the other beings with open hands and used them honorably.
We need to be more like this woman in todays world.
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“use your gifts and dreams for good,”
this line is very deep when you think about it because we are gifted beautiful land and have big dreams but sometime use that to hurt the people around us.
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Their stories, of arrivals with empty pockets and nothing but hope, resonate with Skywoman’s.
even though they are taking the indigenous land they still respect them as they follow the same story as Skywomen
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Turtle Island rested beneath their feet.
We have taken turtle island from the skywoman's people.
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It is good to remember that the original woman was herself an immigrant.
this line relates a lot to problems we see today dealing with immigration.
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the other species were a lifeboat for the people. Now, we must be theirs
this line is very deep because according to the first story they helped us live on now we must help them live on because we have done nothing but hurt them.
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Sister, you got the short end of the stick
this is a pretty funny line but brings lots of thoughts to mind.
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and some suspect that we have worn out our welcome by casting the Original Instructions aside.
this can relate to end of the world stories.
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The earth was new then, when it welcomed the first human. It’s old now,
I think this means humans have made it old because of all the harm to the planet that we cannot reverse.
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We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be from our consciousness
this is a cool thought that we are shaped by the stories we are told and it makes us the person we are.
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On the other side was another woman with a garden and a tree.
this is a very interesting thought on the difference of religions and cultures.
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. Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world.
I find creation stories to be so interesting and diverse
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One by one, the other animals offered to help
It is really cool to see the team work of this council to help this women it might represent how much nature has done for us.
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Together they formed what we know today as Turtle Island, our home.
This reminds me of something that I read where indigenous people believed that the world is resting on a turtles shell and this originated because when turtles would go into deep hibernations they would get barried with dirt and such then emerge from it with a pile of dirt on their backs.
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Some did not return at all.
This could represent the amount of animal lives lost for human purposes.
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He volunteered to go while the others looked on doubt-fully.
He volunteered knowing he would most likely die but he doesn't care.
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Accordingly, it is honored as one of the four sacred plants of my people.
I wonder what the other 4 sacred plants are and why they are sacred?
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Skyworld she had reached out to grab onto the Tree of Life that grew there. In her grasp were branches— fruits and seeds of all kinds of plants. These she scattered onto the new ground and carefully tended each one until the world turned from brown to green.
this is a very cool theory of how trees and plants came about and to think that the world started off as just water then it just turned to land and plants and trees is so cool. and it can be ties to evolution that we started as a fish and worked our way to the land.
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5skywoman fallingSunlight streamed through the hole from the Skyworld, allowing the seeds to flourish.
I know understand the first paragraph that the world started off dark and this women brought the light.
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There is such tenderness in braiding the hair of someone you love
Now it makes sense why braiding someones hair is so meaingful to them is because of the sweetgrass and the braiding of that is so meaningful.
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Both medicine and a relative
If it is used for medicine I see why it is seen as ceremonial.
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nd so sweetgrass is a power-ful ceremonial plant cherished by many indigenous nations.
they do ceremonies to honor the sky women who made the earth with the animals?
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showing her our loving attention, our care for her beauty and well-being, in gratitude for all she has given u
so when we braid the sweetgrass we are showing our love for mother nature?
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When we braid sweet-grass, we are braiding the hair of Mother Earth
This is a very cool thought
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A great turtle
Is the turtle the head of this council?
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o explain to my students how Skywoman’s gardens, known by some as “global ecosystem
it must be hard to explain something that isn't necessarily part of your culture.
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It holds our beliefs, our history, our relationships
To them this story means a lot more than just a folktale.
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like a deep bowl of celestial blue from which I could drink again and again
So the story never gets old to them it always has the same amount of meaning for them.
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They were well schooled in the mechanics of climate change, toxins in the land and water, and the crisis of habitat loss
It makes sense that they would think this because of everything they were taught.
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Nearly every one of the two hundred students said confidently that humans and nature are a bad mix.
this is a very interesting thing that most people think which is that animals and humans cannot work well with each other.
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She fell like a maple seed, pirouetting on an autumn breeze.* A column of light streamed from a hole in the Skyworld, marking her path where only darkness had been before. It took her a long time to fall. In fear, or maybe hope, she clutched a bundle tightly in her hand.
I am a little confused on what they are talking about in this context here.
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they called a council to decide what to do
who is head of council?
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I realized that they could not even imagine what beneficial relations between their species and others might look lik
it is really cool to see the difference of perception between cultures.
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In winter, when the green earth lies resting beneath a blanket of snow
it seems that they believe that the world is resting during the winter times.
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erhaps the negative examples they see every day— brownfields, factory farms, suburban sprawl
We perceive things based off of what we see in our every day life so this is very interesting.
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