Trees as Water

Trees are an essential part of the water cycle! See the liquid motion in these limbs? When we destroy forests, we break the water cycle; when the water cycle breaks, life on earth breaks. Act to protect the bond between waters and forests!! Act to protect our one home, our Mother Water.

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Prayer for the Salmon Nation

Water protectors sing

drums speak.

Prayers rise with sage smoke

invite convocation.

Throngs seen and unseen call

Water is Life.

Ancestors dance

footsteps call out prayers.

Spirit cries warning:

waters given when

the world was new

speak in plain terms

epic floods

hurricane rain

tsunamis

poisoned water

Join bird nations

feathers in the hair;

join animal relatives

with furs on ochre bodies.

Ghost dancers leading,

sing unity.

Feet beat the rhythm.

Pray as One.

The Ghost Dance evolved as a ceremony associated with the Native American prophecy of an end to white expansion, and encouraged cross-cultural cooperation and non-violence among tribes. “Prayer for the Salmon Nation” was inspired by the ongoing efforts of the Puyallup Tribe and other Washington State Tribes who have always called themselves the Salmon People, and know the salmon in the Salish Sea are their ancestors. Their work to save the salmon creates positive ecological changes throughout the entire region.