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In the early eighties I was involved with a form of theater called eco-theater. It was not an unusual expression for me since because of my cultural and racial upbringing there was always a connection to the environment, but what was difficult was expressing that relationship, sharing the relationship, and evolving the relationship in a medium and language that was forgien.
As an Assiniboine/Nakota tribal member, the relationship of environment is that of kinship, or relative…a living entity. It was difficult because of the growth of Christianity where nature was something that we as humans had dominion over nature, whereas in my Tribal upbringing, we, as humans, were not on equal footing with nature. Nature gave to us, and we weren’t the stewarts of nature, but this changed with the constant exploitation of nature and having reduced it from a living relative to an economic resource.
In reading of Native American poetry I am impressed by so many Native American writers who haven’t forgotten this relationship with their Tribes and environment. It is difficult to find the proper expression because many Euro-American forms do not allow the expression to complete itself because of the lack of the philsophical and spiritual aspects that the present language doesn’t encompass, recognize, or embrace. It is almost as if the Tribal logic is incomplete. The existing bridge between the Tribe and its relative, environment, is disrupted and the evloutionary connection is static.
Brother
You have expressed very well what is missing in our global society.
You may find my You Tube site interesting – “An old codger called Murray” is about our largest river system – at the end I talk about the difference between the way western and first peoples view nature.
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John