Native America

Essentially, it is about really maintaining the world. We all have a part to play. The world lives with us, we live with it, but we have to maintain it. We have to take care of it in order for it to provide for us. We have to take care of the water, we have to take care of the seeds. As a farmer myself, I have lots of seeds. Seeds that have been passed down from my grandparents, from my aunts, and I grow those seeds every year, and I keep those seeds and I give them to friends, and I give them to family. That also is a part of maintaining a larger cosmological process. It's getting their hands into the soil and feeling when it's the right time to plant by watching hummingbirds to see when they come back. By seeing when prairie dogs and other animals wake up from their dreams, from the winter, and watching ants when they come out. We know the ground is warming. As a farmer, I can see that with my hands and feel it, but I also watch these other creatures, these other beings that live beneath the surface. I watch the birds, and when they come back, telling me again when it's time to plant. I watch the moon. The moon, when the phases of the moon are going down, I plant things that grow down. When the moon is growing larger, I plant things that grow up. All of these things is a kind of knowledge, and it's our kind of knowledge that we compare with modern science.