I STAND FOR SALMON (PART 1)

The ecology upon this hemisphere trembled, like a frightened horse, when European man first touched it. After a month of leaving a trail of pollution in the ocean as they traveled here from Europe seeking gold, the strangers touched land. After thousands of years of of conflict and crusades, plunder and pollution were in their spirits and diseases were upon their breaths. Whatever they touched soured and began to decay. Their assault upon the ecology began in their unclean thoughts devoid of respect and their imbalanced ideas of life. Immediately they began a program of destruction to the indigenous beings and to the indigenous landscape. Their presence was toxic to earth and it damaged the water and the air.

They assembled upon the eastern homelands then scattered in many directions, inviting more of their kind to assault this land, the ecology, the indigenous. When they looked back upon their pollution and destruction, they called it "glory." Their plan was to destroy indigenous people and indigenous landscape, to erase the natives and to destroy the ecology. They have, to date, almost accomplished both endeavors. The diseases they carried, like a black cloud, covered the land and the water. The natives not knowing that they were carriers fled from village to village infecting all they touched and destroying millions of indigenous in their desperate flight.

Soon pollution creating diseases were in the ocean and in the great rivers of my homeland and among the leaves of the forest.