Let’s restore balance to our lands
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Editor,
To Michael Gale: I think “confusion” is a good way to start. I really don’t know who you are trying to blame for the problems that have risen: the (tribal) people, the people’s government or your government. If you think that the answer to your problems is to blame everyone else, then you have the wrong answer. You have written of bringing agriculture and technology here to this land, but what you fail to mention is who taught the pilgrims how to grow and manage the land. As I recall from what was taught in the classroom, if it were not for the humanity of the native people, (the pilgrims) would have perished, yet they were all able to have a first Thanksgiving, which became a tradition.
As for the water, which is a very vital substance that everything needs to survive, it should be shared equally and not wasted. When water is much needed and you are able to get a bird’s eye view of the valleys, you wonder why some parcels are darker green than others. Is this the result of good management or because some receive more than others of a resource that should be shared equally?
My grandfather used to tell me that when people first arrived to this land, the grasses were tall, green and plentiful; the waters were clean and pure; animals, fish, nature and people were all in balance. So let us try to put things back in balance. Let us all strive and seek ways to put all things back in balance. Look at your neighbors in the eyes and treat them the way you like to be treated.
I am not telling you to move away, and I hope that you don’t tell me to move away. And again I ask that all try to put things back in balance. Let us not be wasteful of what we enjoy and share, and harvest the things that we as people need to survive and live together as humans. One thing that we can share without it being taken away from us is the freedom of speech. Let’s not have hate, greed and other sins destroy this place, for there is no other place like it in this small place we call Earth.
Francis Pierre
Arlee
