Cedar Creek Park
“Don’t bother the earth spirit who lives here. She is working on a story . . .”
… It is the oldest story in the world and it is delicate, changing. If she sees you watching she will invite you in for coffee, give you warm bread, and you will be obligated to stay and listen. But this is no ordinary story. You will have to endure earthquakes, lightning, the deaths of all those you love, the most blinding beauty. It’s a story so compelling you may never want to leave; this is how she traps you. See that stone finger over there? That is the only one who ever escaped.”
~“Don’t Bother the Earth Spirit” by Joy Harjo
LOCATION INFO:
Wikipedia entry
TERRITORY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
This place is on the traditional territory of the Wahpeton and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.
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