- I think that the food we eat now days is
rotten with chemicals. It is laced with our own death, and slowly it is
decaying our minds. The food we eat needs to change, we need to change
what we eat.
- We as Iroquois people need to start carrying
the burden that was given to us. The burden of keeping our seeds alive,
our vegetables alive before it is to late. We need to start growing our
own sweet corn again, our beans and squash.
- How can our children begin to respect our three
sisters, corn, beans and squash. If they only see them sold for profit
in supermarkets. How can they respect them if they never taste what was
given to us, if they only eat hybrid plants.
- Iroquois people don't have to become farmers
again, nor do we have to stop driving our cars. Nor do we even have to
give in to progress, because where is it leading us to. I'd say global
melt down, and were going to feel it just the same as everyone else.
- We like many people are going to see what our
love for consumer society has done to us. Our people are going to suffer
the rash that Mother earth is going to give us. Meanwhile if we at least
made an effort to keep our seeds alive, some things could change, and influence
people to change. We should be role models for change in todays world.
- Our biggest asset to our people growing food
is we once again could share it with our people. We could learn about the
plants as a community, work as a community and eat as a community. Something
that truly hasn't been done in along time.
- So I tip my hat to the Iroquois people who
continue to grow our foods, and the non-Iroquois people who work without
mention to help us keep our foods. Even if you only grow one plant, one
leaf, or one bean, your one step closer to understanding.
- People, the world can change for the better,
it is possible for us to carry out our duties. The problem is we have to
figure out how to carry them out. We need to find a way to grow our corn,
beans and squash. Then share the learning involved in doing it, so that
our children will once again respect our sisters, mothers, grandmothers,
and people as a whole.
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- It is everything about us that taught us respect,
take away any one part, and you begin to loose it all. The great circle
we talk so strongly has been cut, why in hell haven't we done anything
to fix it.
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