"Thus, 'my relatives' include many more than all you readers or all you two-legged folk of the world. Indeed, it necessarily includes all of life on our planet: the four-legged persons, the flying persons (from birds to butterflies, and even flies), and all those people called the living-moving ones (that is, the mountains and rivers, the trees and the rocks, the corn we plant to sustain our lives and the fish in the lakes.)"
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Tinker, George. "An American Indian Cultural Universe." Moral Ground. Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson. Ed. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2010. p. 196. Print.
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