Lecture notes:

corn beans and squash - tree sisters

the Boston tea party colonists dressed up as members of the mohawk tribe (symbolic bc they wanted to be free of colonists and colonists wanted to be free from the king)

3 white tripes = peace, friendship, respect

when mother earth decides to discipline us there is no mercy ( no one is spared/the exception so stop thinking that there is a distinction bc there wont be)

we are a reflection of the earth (she’s suffering, we suffer)

our bodies are the only physical things we actually own

• if we treat every human being like they are sacred (like how they are described in creation stories) then there would be no more war, no more rape, no more murder, people wouldnt go missing etc.

misguided men → leaders of tdy that think that war will solve our problems

embrace the wisdom of the first nations in the time we have left to change the trajectory we are headed on (climate change/human extinction)

earth mother (two daughters lay out the foundation for life —- then turtle man impregnantes one of the daughters)

• one pregnant one not

  • two sons are birthed, one comes out naturally (peace) and the other comes on his own accord (and she died bc of it) (destruction)

    • peace and destruction (balance)