Reply #52: I first read the book, _The Elder Brothers_ many years ago, shortly after it first came out.

[scarletwoman]

The Elder Brothers' message has stayed with me ever since. When the oil well first ruptured their words were the first thing I thought of.

Back then, in one of the many threads here expressing shock and dismay, my dear friend DesertRose made a comment, "They've hit an artery", and it hit me like a blow. We have slashed and ripped and raped our Mother's body, and now She is bleeding out.

I understand that the Earth Herself won't die, but weakened and beset She is being rendered incapable of caring for Her children. She will have to withdraw Her life force and Her blessings from the arrogant children who have so heedlessly ill-used Her, in order to heal Herself.

I think a great culling of the human race is drawing upon us.

About 8 or 9 years ago I was a guest at wedding of one Leonard Crow Dog's grandsons. Late in the day the wedding party and some of us friends were sitting informally around a campfire, just quietly chatting. Crow Dog himself came and joined us, and mostly sat silent. One his relatives asked him a question -- I didn't hear what it was -- and Leonard started speaking.

"The earth is gonna shake. The earth is gonna shake like a dog shaking off fleas. The earth is gonna shake off the white man."

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