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The mission of the Karuk Tribal Council is to promote the general welfare of all Karuk people, to establish equality and justice for our tribe, to restore and preserve Tribal traditions, customs, language and ancestral rights, and to secure to ourselves and our descendants the power to exercise the inherent rights of self governance.
http://karuk.us/
(From FORESTS, TREES AND PEOPLE Newsletter # 34, 1997) Natural/cultural processes
The Karuk tribe inhabits some 1.4 million acres of ancestral homeland in northern California. This forested, steeply mountainous country through which the Klamath and Salmon Rivers flow, has been the home of Karuk people for thousands of years. Over this immense span of time the Karuk people developed land management to a fine science. These traditional management skills have never been fully recognized by Forest Service land managers and pre-contact land management was thought to have been purely a matter of natural processes. The systematic destruction of indigenous peoples without acknowledging the validity of their land management skills has been a world-wide effect of colonialism, extinguishing finely-developed, well-tuned techniques for sustainable management of ecosystems. These systems of management were maintained from the grass roots level and not by a powerful command structure imposing its will on the land.
The duck, because of its connection with water is linked to the feminine energies, the astral plane, and to the emotional state of all humans. Water is necessary for all life on earth. Ducks remind us to drinks from the waters of life as well as to nurture our own emotional natures.
The colors of the duck can also help you determine specifically the role it will have in your life. Most ducks are a variety of colors, ranging from white to rich blue-green iridesence of mallard ducks and wood ducks.
All ducks have a grace upon the water, and as a totem they can help you to handle your own emotions with greater grace and comfort, They serve to teach you how to manuver through various waters of life.
-from Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, by Ted Andrews
Share your medicine,
Touch me, honor me,
So that I may know you too.
"Eagle medicine is the gift we give ourselves to remind us of the freedom of the skies. Eagle asks you to give yourself permission to legalize freedom and to follow the joy your heart desires."
-From Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams & David Carson
-Illustration by Angela Werneke Cards and Book Available at: http://www.jamiesams.com/andAmazon.com
