Long ago
Raven heard sounds in a clamshell on the beach and pried it open
releasing the human beings into the world.
The price of their freedom is responsibility to care for the earth,
their home.
Given access to what is their share to sustain life, they must not
take what is not theirs.
Today the Shell is marked with red lines of blood.
A new and unholy cancer of profit
grows within.
We must crush the cancer in our imagination.
The people repeat the Raven’s cry: get the Shell out!
Ramona Quock and other Tahltan Elders lead First Nation peoples of Northern British Columbia in the struggle to prevent Royal Dutch Shell from destroying wilderness through the extraction and piping of natural gas to Alberta. Wyoming ranchers have already seen their land dismembered by natural gas production that is shipped to Alberta
for use in extracting petroleum from oil sands.
www. sacredheadwaters.org
For All people who protect the Sacred Being of Earth
