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From page 90:

"It involved the hands, the mind, the heart, and the cooperation of others - the kind of work common in ancient indigenous societies including: healing, craftmaking, hunting, farming, constructing dwellings, and making clothes."

Wanapum: YANTCHA = Spiritual Leader: Smohalla (circa 1818-1907) and prophet from Wawhington State, "was crical of how white society seemed more committed to profit than to people - 'men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams."

From page 90:

"Even in a free-enterprise society, many people take dream-crushing jobs because of lack of education, apathy, or the unavailability of meaningful work."

Omaha saying: "A man should make his own arrows." "This means that good work is creative sand self-reliant." "The self-reliant person is ready and willing to work with the group to accomplish community goals."

From page 91:

"In the Wolf Clan Teaching Lodge, work is symbolized by the TURTLE. The Turtle does everything slowly and carefully. His pace is dictated by the rhythms of nature. He is on "indian time." "Things get done when they need to get done. No schedules or clocks. No type A personalities."

"...if you win the rat race, you're still a RAT."

"Anthropologists have shown that cultures with the least technology have the slowest pace of life and the most leisure."

Book: "Stone Age Economics" by Marshall Sahlin, Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1972, page 17. ...people living in subsistence cultures 'do not work hard'...the amount of work (per capita) increases with the evolution of culture, and the amount of leisure decreases." (see endnote #28, page 358).

From page 91:

World Population: six billion in 2009 (?)

We can "help to preserve and re-store what is left of the Earth and of our humanity by adopting Values embodied in traditional Native American work: cooperation, self-reliance, simplicity, and the importance of slowing down."

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