Chris Peters, director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, says the dominant culture's lack of relationship to the land must be changed on a massive level to avert serious ecological crisis. Chris says that Euro-Americans must become "native": not in the sense of emulating Indian cultures, but rather in establishing an authentic spiritual connection to the land, and reversing the centuries-old notion of an otherworldly heaven that leaves no incentive to protect the earth. Chris asks, can the Euro-American worldview change in time?
Chris Peters is the director of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples throughout the Americas. ... bio page »
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