Greetings to the World:
We would like to indicate our support for all projects that encourage sustainable living in a way that respects nature and Mother Earth. We specifically would like to recognize the Center for Natural and Traditional Knowledge for its sustainable community template project in New York.
In accordance with the mission statement of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers expressed in the following summary;
We the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers have united as one.
Ours is an alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, all the children and for the next seven generations to come.
We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the contamination of our air, waters and soil, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the threat of nuclear weapons and waste, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics which threaten the health of the earth's peoples, the exploitation of indigenous medicines, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life.
We come together to protect the lands where our peoples live and upon which our cultures depend, to safeguard the collective heritage of traditional medicines, and to defend the earth Herself. We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future.
Prayers and Blessings,
International council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
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