Becoming Fully Human: The Covenant of the Original Instructions

“The pollution in this lake is a symbol of the pollution that’s in us and until we are able to work through the pollution that is inside of each and every one of us, that lake will not be unpolluted…
We have to take care of what’s inside of us… so that our decisions are wise decisions, and that our steps that we take have consciousness and awareness supporting them.”

The Original Instructions represent the ancient empirical wisdom of traditional ecological knowledge earned over generations and millennia by people living closely with the land and each other.  They also comprise disarmingly simple counsel: be thankful, enjoy life and attend to the inner pollution that results in outer pollution. Indigenous leaders Winona LaDuke, John Trudell and Evon Peter voice these ancient instructions, which hold the keys to our survival as a species in the historic transition to a truly sustainable world.


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