In 1947, former U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier published his bookIndians of the Americas, in which he spoke of American Indians having “what the world has lost.” He was referring to “this power to live,” “the ancient, lost reverence and passion for the earth and its web of life.” “This indivisible reverence and passion is what the American Indians almost universally had; and representative groups of them have it still,” said Collier.
“Not many years are left,” warned Collier, “to have or have not, to recapture the lost ingredient.” He continued: “This is not merely a passing reference to World War III or the atom bomb—although the reference includes these ways of death, too. These deaths will mean the end if they come—racial death, self-inflicted because we have lost the way, and the power to live is dead.”
“What the world had lost, the world must have again lest it die,” Collier cautioned. His statements seem prescient (future sighted) today, especially in light of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima Japan, which has unleashed massive amounts of radiation into the ecosystems of Mother Earth, particular into the Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean on the planet.
Collier’s mention of the “atom bomb” as a potential way of death, “self-inflicted because we have lost the way” has a special resonance now. Clearly, a worst case scenario is unfolding at Fukushima, and only time will tell how bad it will get, and how catastrophically it will affect all life on Mother Earth.
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