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I listened to elders and medicine people from over a
dozen tribes give testimony to Forest Service Supervisor Nora
Rasure, explaining to her why snowmaking with treated wastewater
was blasphemy (HCN, 9/17/07). I
watched middle-aged men bow their heads as tears streaked their
faces. None of that seemed to move Ms. Rasure. She told the
Indigenous Peoples' summit meeting that she needed to protect the
rights of recreationists.
Later I offered - twice - to talk with her about what I had learned about intercultural communication with indigenous peoples. She never took me up on it; and, a few months later, told an interviewer that she couldn't remember the name of the Florida tribe she had worked with two years earlier in her former Forest Service position. It is a gift that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has a deeper understanding of respect than Ms. Rasure does.
Mary Sojourner
Flagstaff, Arizona
Later I offered - twice - to talk with her about what I had learned about intercultural communication with indigenous peoples. She never took me up on it; and, a few months later, told an interviewer that she couldn't remember the name of the Florida tribe she had worked with two years earlier in her former Forest Service position. It is a gift that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has a deeper understanding of respect than Ms. Rasure does.
Mary Sojourner
Flagstaff, Arizona
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As H2O filters down through the forest it comes in contact with waste; the waste is filtered by the forest litter. I guess being an atheist; I don't see that as sacrilegious. And recreationist may mean skier or snowshoer--- or the damned sno-gos. But water means life to the mountains and drainage.