Ledges State Park

“If you look around for a moment, and see who is leading environmental movements, you’ll see it’s the youth and the women. And why is that?. . .”

… It is because our men have been beaten down for so long that they are sick, too. My great-grandmother explained to me how we have been in a men’s cycle for too long. The men’s cycle, when men are in charge, there is oftentimes war or times of conflicts, but when the woman’s cycle comes in, it is the nurturing and rebuilding times. She was 95 when she told me the transition is happening where women are taking on that responsibility again, as long as our women are strong. ‘We are not dead,’ my grandma used to say. ‘As long as you twitch, the vultures will not pick your eyes out.’”

~Paulette Blanchard, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Jíwere–Ñút’achi Máyaⁿ (Otoe-Missouria), Báxoje Máyaⁿ (Ioway), 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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