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'Earth Mother getting angry'
AP via The Concord Monitor ^ | June 18, 2007 | Unattributed

Posted on 06/19/2007 2:09:24 PM PDT by gpapa

From New Hampshire to California, American Indian leaders are speaking out more forcefully about the danger of climate change.

Members of six tribes recently gathered near the Baker River in the White Mountains for a sacred ceremony honoring "Earth Mother." Talking Hawk, a Mohawk Indian who asked to be identified by his Indian name, pointed to the river's tea-colored water as proof that the overwhelming amount of pollution humans have produced has caused changes around the globe.

(Excerpt) Read more at concordmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; gaia; globalwarming; indiantribes; motherearth
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To: cripplecreek

Yep, same color as all the fly in lakes in Manitoba Canada we fish.


21 posted on 06/19/2007 2:27:34 PM PDT by Graycliff (Long haired freaky people, need not apply.)
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To: gpapa
Great. So on top of the usual gaggle of enviroweenies running around crying and screaming their little heads off, now we have injun trouble...
22 posted on 06/19/2007 2:27:47 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (..and the horse you rode in on!)
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To: gpapa

If I ever seek advice from a witch doctor, then I will have had a lobotomy and become a Dem.


23 posted on 06/19/2007 2:27:53 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: almcbean

Chief Dullest Knife. Or was it Stiff As Board?


24 posted on 06/19/2007 2:27:56 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Conspiracy theorists are among the most egotistical people, but have the fewest reasons to be such.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yep, same color as all the fly in lakes in Manitoba Canada we fish.


25 posted on 06/19/2007 2:28:12 PM PDT by Graycliff (Long haired freaky people, need not apply.)
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To: gpapa

I seriously doubt Native Americans would join this Algorian cause. They know, as many of us do, there are some problems with pollution and some human caused GW on this plant but, they have never been known to *tag along*.


26 posted on 06/19/2007 2:29:27 PM PDT by wolfcreek (AMNESTY: See what BROWN can do for you..)
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To: Nervous Tick

Well, until the earth tells me otherwise, I’ll continue to pee outside when the urge comes! ;-)


27 posted on 06/19/2007 2:31:35 PM PDT by rbosque
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To: MCRD

Ugghhh... Me seeum tea colored water... Got um cup?


28 posted on 06/19/2007 2:31:40 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: gpapa

Even if the river is polluted, it does not mean it has anything to do with “climate change”. Global warming BS is one thing, a river full of sewage another.


29 posted on 06/19/2007 2:31:49 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: gpapa
the river's tea-colored water as proof that the overwhelming amount of pollution humans have produced

To be honest, I don't really care about any of that. But I would pay him handsomely, if he could come to my house in Florida and make it rain.
30 posted on 06/19/2007 2:33:14 PM PDT by mutley
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Talking Hawk... pointed to the river's tea-colored water as proof that the overwhelming amount of pollution humans have produced has caused changes around the globe...

I'd say that the 'tea-colored' water was proof of Talking Hawk's overwhelming load of Bull 'Pucky' except for the fact that the river water was the same color when I was a kid in the 1960s paddling a canoe in the Boy Scouts down the rivers of central Florida. It's called called tannin and it's a naturally occuring chemical in tree roots and leaves that causes river water to turn brown.

31 posted on 06/19/2007 2:34:05 PM PDT by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North (If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)
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To: gpapa

“After reading the book, Sutton said he agrees with the American Indian philosophy of life: Use nature respectfully, never taking more than is needed.”

I do believe history shows the Indian tribes hardly followed this philosophy. The general rule was settle in an area, use up the natural resources, and when they are gone, move on to another site. Studies show the tribes often wrought ecological ruin where they settled.

That said, I have no problem with advocating a symbiotic relationship with nature, so long as humankind is recognized as having a respectable place in that relationship. I have a real problem with those who advocate that humankind either disappear (that is, those humans other than the enlightened advocates) or go back to the caves.


32 posted on 06/19/2007 2:37:24 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: gpapa
“After reading the book, Sutton said he agrees with the American Indian philosophy of life: Use nature respectfully, never taking more than is needed.”

That is such cr*p. They burned forest to drive out game.
Drove herds of buffalo over cliffs to kill them by the hundreds. And many other not terribly nature friendly things.

I frankly am tired of this whole noble mystic of the plains nonsense.

33 posted on 06/19/2007 2:38:58 PM PDT by Taichi (Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse)
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To: gpapa

“Native Americans have always been close to the land and have treated the land well.”

Really? I guess all of those migrations of tribes after they have stripped the land bare of crops and game were just part of their overall plan of crop and game rotation. Ok, now I get it.


34 posted on 06/19/2007 2:39:20 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: Friend_from_the_Frozen_North
The irony is that native American indians are among the worst polluters, hands down, of any group I've observed.

I have travelled across numerous reservations across the western U.S.; the filth and trash that they emit just makes me plain depressed.

35 posted on 06/19/2007 2:40:16 PM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (Bacon is the only thing that keeps me sane.)
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To: gpapa

...and the answer is the election of Hillary Clinton. :D


36 posted on 06/19/2007 2:40:37 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: gpapa

Whiskey River don’t run dry,
You’re all I’ve got, take care of me.


37 posted on 06/19/2007 2:41:07 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
ha-ha-ha-ha. ha-ha-ha-ha.


38 posted on 06/19/2007 2:41:32 PM PDT by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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To: CounterCounterCulture

I’d be more concerned about what Father God thinks.


39 posted on 06/19/2007 2:42:07 PM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: Incorrigible

earth father too

40 posted on 06/19/2007 2:43:44 PM PDT by mcar
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