Think of it this way, your ancestors navigated by the
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stars, and today most people won't walk outside without making in the passage?
a GPS. That's a crazy loss of direction or skill at some
level for sure. And while Indigenous peoples and many
rural peoples can still see the stars, most of the world's
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population cannot. That's particularly an urban thing,
where there's all this light. From my farm, through the
How does the writer establish credibility?
open skies, at night I can see the glow of Detroit Lakes,
and that's 25 miles away.
-"A Case for Waawaatesi,*
Winona LaDuke