Indigenous Relationships With Gaia
(In the 1970’s) “… We had even obtained the use of a large property near Lake Perry not far from the Topeka city limits where the marchers could camp. This was an important halfway stop for the Indians because the marchers who had come all the way from the West Coast were joined by runners from the North, and the two movements merged and joined forces. Their numbers grew to over one thousand and they remained at the Kansas campsite for over one week …
The Indians broke camp quickly and quietly and set out on their eastward journey at sunrise one morning and, though for many days hundreds of them - men, women, and children - had cooked, slept, and played on the land and held their many sweats and ceremonies, they left not one single sign that they had ever been there.”
Doug Boyd from MAD BEAR Spirit, Healing, and the Sacred in the Life of a Native American Medicine Man by Doug Boyd. Simon & Schuster, 1994.