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In the beginning humans, lived in small groups ...

that collected food by hunting and gathering...

Taking only what they needed to survive.

Today, only a few humans still live in deep contact with nature...

On some of the last pristine places on on earth.

They continue a traditional way of life...

That has been practised almost unchanged...

for thousands of years.

A way of life that has stood the test of time...

And allows them to live in harmony with the natural surroundings.

These may be some of the last remaining people to live in traditional lifestyle...

Based on a wisdom passed down through countless generations.

Many people have never heard their voices.

Now, it may be time to listen.

My voice been told by my parents and my grandparents...

which was the same message they received from their grandparents for many generations...

That was to treat Earth as a mother.

When we respect the Earth mother then she provides for us.

And all the things that we see on our way...

Four legged animals...

The ones in the ocean...

Even the hills and boulders...

They are relatives.

By them learning that we are all related...

We also learn responsibility to keep our planet alive.

As I young boy...

When I stood next to great tree, a big fullgrowing tree...

I felt really small.

I fell that I still had a place, here at this great tree...

Bigger than me...

Being on Earth longer...

And I feel one with it.

The way that my ancestors were able to maintain a unity...

Within natural enviroment...

Was to see all things sacred.

Meaning, there was spirit in everything.

We always respected our elders.

We admired them for coming so far in life.

My grandfather was a wonderful teacher and a great storyteller.

It seemed as if, as he spoke he also healed.

And I wanted to learn it.

My grandfather told me as a nice speak...

It would touch the hearts of many people.

I know now, what he meant.

And there is a healing in a story.

There is power in a word.

That's how we built the power of communities...

That's how we told our children to be great leaders,

To be great medicine people...

Through the stories.

The most basic "baggles" that is important to our traditional way of life

is to have enough food to eat, to have water to drink...

And to have firewood for keep ourselfes warm.

The land provides us with all our basic needs...

So we are completely dependant on nature.

Without these things we can not survive.

These things can be learned from other cultures,

but we also learn from their mistakes.

If the people to continue to treat the Earth wit no respect...

Our traditional way of life will come to a end.

When we killed an animal, the remains will be shared between the people...

His skin will be used for clothes, for a blankets.

If it's a big animal, then meat will be sun dryed to be eaten later...

And all the meat will be eaten up.

And sharing is a very important thing in our culture

If you don't share with other people, they will not share with you.

And sharing is just a natural way of life.

The most important thing that I would teach the children is...

That we must not forget about our land and our culture.

Ancient teachings have been passed down through generations of our people.

These teachings that all life forms are interconnected.

Everything is part of one whole and living organism,

And each part is vital to the survival of the whole.

I believe the Earth is one living being.

The end of anyone life form will lead to hardship of another.

And if there are too many hardships, the whole will suffer beyond healing.

I was taught that the most important thing is to have a peaceful heart.

When we account that with who we are...

We treat other life forms with compassion and kindness.

Nature will always contain mysteries...

We do not need to solve them all...

We just need to be open and let it feel us.

The energy of nature moves through the cycle of birth, death and rebirth...

And it continues on and on...

Moving from one form of life to another.

Long before humans were able to communicate through modern medias...

Cultures separated by vast oceans were sharing the same values.

They speak in many languages,

Yet, their messages continue to ... one another across the globe.

I'm a man of people of the tides.

Much of who I amcomes from the sea.

Much of our spirituality comes from the sea.

Somehow we are called back to the that place where all began...

When there are things alive in the sea, then the sea becomes beautiful.

When there are animals and creatures on Earth...

Then the mother Earth becomes beautiful.

When life is good, then we have time for the artist...

The we have time to see the art.

It reminds us of the heritage of our tribe.

I live in a place where I can see all of nature...

And this is how I learn...

All the lessons to living for out there.

When I go into bear country, I do ceremony for the bears...

Through ceremony we are thankful...

And say prayer for being part of this Earth.

I respect other creatures, other animals...

Because we are living together.

I come from a society, where each one of us, is responsible for the ceremony...

To heal the mother Earth.

It heals our family.

It heals our nations.

It heals our tribe.

People, they already know how they should keep the planet clean.

This is the way we used to live.

We are the ones, that are being dangerous species.

That's what the raven say.

That's what the eagle say.

When you are living in the forest with the insects and the animals...

We build a culture around the presence of those things.

You always feel something is there...

Warming you up or even frightening you or making you happy.

The forest does speak to us.

The basic value of the traditional way of life...

is astonished to the belonging, of having a place.

For me and family includes my community because they are so close to us...

And we share our life with them every day.

People can learn a lot from traditional way of life...

If there is one thing, I think is to learn to live humbly on the land...

To live humbly in this world.

When this is the last generation to have traditional fortune beliefs...

It may will be...

That is the sad thing about traditional knowledge...

If you don't take it know, it will be gone forever.

We also want our children to have a good future...

We also want to have this land intact for our grandchildren.

We are nothing without animals, We are nothing without the forest.

This is what we hope is transmited to the younger generation

When I was young I used to climb trees to look for all sorts of fruits.

I could go right to the very top and look way out...

And I often wondered, "What is it like?"

"What are people like on the other side of the mountain?"

In every culture the elders hold the knowledge of the past...

And the young are the future.

When we look at the world through the eyes of future generations...

We begin to discover what we all have in common...

The most sacred thing, we ever had, was choice.

And that's where all begins.

Transcript made by DiLiMo.blogspot.com sorry for mistakes, Eng isn't my mother language.