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From the Moccasin Tracks broadcast July 14 from University of Vermont, WRUV Burlington we talk with Grandmother Josephine who is on a Sacred Water Walk. www.waterwalkersunited.com Music Credit: Doreen Day; Water Song (Nibi); Timbered Lake from Shimmering in the Rhythms CD, Hear The Wind and Carry It On by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Power In The Blood (CD) "Words from the Water (by Josephine Mandamin) Water is amazing, it flows where it wants to, it can go through any crack, crook or cranny. It can sing the most beautiful songs, if you listen well. She can sound like a male voice, especially during huge waves. It ebbs and flows leaving us messages in her journey throughout life. We are connected and united to life with water, and as we are all united by water; it seems we must be conscious of all things united.This connections or linkage helps us understand life and what it gives to humans, nature and animals. We are all so connected, so united with/by water. It is all life. To see how water can mold itself to any situation, we can see it in any shape we put it in: jars, small containers, huge gallons - it flows to any shape or form. We are all connected by water and as we are all of water: 70 or 80% of our body mass, why can't we flow like the water? to unite ourselves with each other, to sing like the water, to think like the water, to be of one conscious entity? Why can't we? IF we could be, we will be one big ocean of love, kindness, respect, united and jelled together as one, we will be the generation to save our Mother. Science is slowly catching up to our anishinabe thinking about our natural laws as governed to us by Creation/Creator. Our duty and responsibility is to our Mother's care and well being. The common denominator of life is Water. In our Mide Lodge we know all this from the teachings and oral inscriptions left by our ancestors, but we have not been vocal enough to tell the world and science that we know what they are collecting as new science. It is not new knowledge, or new understanding. it's been around as long as our Mide ancestors have been on this Mother earth. Our ancestors knew where water comes from, whence it flows, and how it flows. This is all understood in our waters songs and Lodge creation story. How can we tell the world that science is in our Mide Lodge? Is it time to open the doorway to the Lodge so they can hear? Let's all think about this !! Josephine Mandamin Grandmother, WaterWalker" Moccasin Tracks broadcasts on Mondays 11AM-3PM at WJSC Johnson at 90.7FM and online here: http://www.jsc.edu/student-life/arts-recreation/arts-culture/wjsc-90.7-radio-johnson With Ruth Wilder and The Wildside. Moccasin Tracks broadcasts Tuesdays on WRUV FM, University of Vermont (UVM) and Community Radio at 90.1FM and online at wruv.org where the program is archived for one week. www.facebook.com/MoccasinTracks wruv.moccasintracks@gmail.com or radiowithdeb@gmail.com