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Enrique Salmón
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“Iwígara channels the idea that all life, spiritual and physical, is interconnected in a continual cycle [and] expresses the belief that all life shares the same breath. We are all related to, and play a role in, the complexity of life.” Knowing that I am related to everything around me and share breath with all living things helps me to focus on my responsibility to honor all forms of life. Or, as native writer N. Scott Momaday puts it, everything around us has “being-ness.”
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
“Juniper holds a very special place in the minds of native peoples, Hispanics, and other multigenerational residents of the Southwest community. It is tough and resilient, with many practical and sacred uses. It shows up in several American Indian origin stories and has even been used as an analogy explaining why American Indian peoples will always occupy this arid landscape. “Indians are like the juniper tree. Our roots are deep and strong. When the next big wind comes across the land, we will still be standing.”
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
“American Indians use goldenrod as a gambling medicine, among other things. But American Indian games of chance must be perceived through an American Indian lens. Gambling is not only a source of entertainment and community building, it is a sacred practice that is representative of the unpredictable Trickster consciousness and those unknown and unexplainable gray areas of the cosmos. Gambling is sacred chance, an opportunity to be in contact with the living, breathing, scattered cosmos.”
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
― Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
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