Joe Bruchac

Abenaki storyteller and musician Joseph Bruchac tells a story about what humans can learn from the bear.

Native American stories connect people with the animals around them

Culture

Many Native American communities belong to a clan that identifies with an animal — such as the bear, deer, or loon — that is featured in their traditional stories.

Mossbrae Falls in the Shasta Cascade area in Dunsmuir, California. In many spiritual traditions, like the Lakota in the US, water represents “the living relationship between you and I and all things."

Spiritual leaders seek to spur an ‘ecological conversion’

Belief

Thanksgiving Native Harvest

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