Letters to the editor
Happy Earth Day! Editor: Many indigenous people of North America told a different creation story than the ones we learned in Genesis I and 2. Creator made all the plants and animals first and told them to take care of Little Brother, a vulnerable human who needed lots of help to survive. All went well for hundreds of thousands of years, and human societies did not destroy the planet. My ancestors descended from people who had developed a different culture, one based on the concepts of human dominance of nature and private property. Much of the land people occupied was divided and ...