Here's another link: to a short film from The Liturgists, which speaks potent truth to power. And while my heart breaks when i take this in, i also am grateful for the values and lifeways of people who've stewarded lands like these for the future--not for themselves, but for all of us who so need to embrace major changes in what we thought, what we've been hypnotized to believe, is important. Do you look at Arctic Village and wonder how those poor people survive? Or do you look at people like this and wonder how technological society has trapped us into blinding addictions? i admire the humility that roots us in cooperative and reciprocal relationships, and the wisdom and strength it takes to honor these relationships above the ones that are leading to destruction.

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/new-film-highlights-threat-oil-drilling-alaska-native-communities?emci=56e75a27-4a0f-eb11-96f5-00155d03affc&emdi=37f5f677-d50f-eb11-96f5-00155d03affc&ceid=697800