Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset: We Need a Kincentric Worldview | Atmos
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Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset: We Need a Kincentric Worldview | Atmos
This calls us to undertake a transformation from a worldview of domination and exploitation to a kin-centric worldview that acknowledges our utter dependence upon the life-giving gifts of other species, before whom we can only bow in gratitude. Gratitude awakens the impulse to return the gifts, to enter the covenant of reciprocity.
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