DISCIPLESHIP: "Our Most Sacred Relative"

 

From The Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs: The principle of non-Indigenous environmental justice work could be summarized like this: "The earth is our greatest natural resource and it is incumbent upon us to protect it." Sounds good, but it is wrong. Because when viewed from an Indigenous perspective, we would state it like this: "The earth is our most sacred relative and it is incumbent upon us to protect her." The Earth has an identity. The Earth lives. She breathes. She moves. She thunders. She nourishes.