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The Navajo word for wolf, "mai-coh,"
also means witch,
and a person could transform
if he or she donned a wolf skin.
The Navajo themselves
have healing ceremonies
which call upon Powers
to restore peace and harmony to the ill,
and the wolf is one such Power.
A Wolf's Point Of View
I am wolf,
I am as old as the mountains
I call home.
I have walked this earth
long before human beings.
I have seen mountains
grow from small hills,
from small ravines and rivers
born of trickling streams.
I have walked
with the great ones of eons ago,
the great mammoth,
saber tooth tigers and many others
who have long been lost.
I have seen the beginning of mankind.
I am wolf.
I am predetor.
A hunter. I hunt for food.
I do not collect trophies to be mounted
on the walls of my den.
I do not hunt for enjoyment
but out of necessity, for survival.
I hunt to feed my children
so they can one day walk upon mother earth
and become of the circle of life.
I am wolf.
I have watched for many years
my hunting grounds deminish
trees replaced by buildings,
game replaced by humans.
I have been driven higher and higher
into the mountains yet the humans still come
and I'm driven even farther
from the hunting grounds
of my fathers father
and his father before him.
Yet I survive.
My children survive.
I am wolf.
I am a loyal, devoted and loving parent.
Our children are our future.
Just as human children are the future
of all human beings.
I am protective of my children
and I take my responsibility
of their nuturing
as seriously as any human parent.
I provide food for my children
and provide them with
a safe home until they are ready
to walk their own path.
I am wolf.
I do not choose to hunt
in the presence of humans,
but I have been given no other choice.
My land has been taken from me,
and now so shall my life
and the lives of my children
and in doing so our future is doomed.
We will go the way of the old ones.
Only in memories of distant pasts
shall we live again.
I am wolf.
Wolves are beauty without vanity,
innocence without naivete.
We are one of the creators children
and deserve to live our lives in peace.
We were created for a purpose
and it was not to be hunted and slaughtered.
I am wolf.
Tonight I will lay and sleep beside my mate
and our children.
This may be the last night
we will share together
upon mother earth
for tomorrow many of our brothers
and siters will be slaughtered
and perhaps ourselves as well.
Our songs will be only a distant memory,
fading into the past.
 
Webset by
Angel
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