Tag: indigenous ecology

The War on Us

September 9, 2026

Is Labor Day really about us and out work, our lives, the wars we fight? From the beginning, I have described the War On Iran, with emphasis on the ON, not ‘with,’ not ‘in,’ but on. In and with are so neutral, they convey just some happening ‘over there.’ But it was an unprovoked intentional … More The War on Us

Predators Like Us

March 13, 2015

Leave it to a practicing member of an indigenous culture to “say it like it is,” in the most direct way imaginable. I had watched a very interesting episode of “Nature” on PBS (January 28, 2015), about the incursion of killer whales into the Arctic seas. It got me thinking of the predatory practices of … More Predators Like Us