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Suepup
July 4, 2008

Seven Generations

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Alright, this LO was created not with the thought of beauty or traditional scrapbook techniques in mind. This LO was created for one purpose..to challenge the viewers thoughts, values and principles as well as my own. The other day, I was driving in my car along the normal interstate route that I drive everyday-when I noticed all the cars, factories, buildings and trash along the road-just as these thoughts started flooding my mind , the song “Let the Children Cry” by White Lion came on the radio-now that is just Divine Intervention-Thank God! So, I started collecting the trash in my car trash bag-yep, the same trash that I normally just throw in my dumpster so it could go to the landfill. As I was collecting the trash, I thought-I should use this trash as embellishments on a LO! I added the flower, to create a contrast-That even among all the trash a flower can still breakthrough and bloom. I created the picture in the LO by cutting many smaller pictures and incorporating them into one-I really love the baby in my hand! Of course, after I finished the LO the same reoccurring theme kept came to mind-yep another American Indian principle- “The Seven Generations” –for you who do not know about the Seven Generations;
Traditionally, indigenous people would not make any significant environmental changes until they had carefully considered how it would affect the ecology of their descendants seven generations down the line. This is because indigenous people have direct contact with the responsibilities given to their ancestors and also have direct contact with their own responsibilities to the generations yet unborn. They feel all generations are connected and believe we must think of the effects of decisions made today on the Seventh Generation. Wilderness Journeys and nature based programs are a pathway:
Anyway the journaling in the upper right-hand corner reads:
“ Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the inhabitants of the Earth”
There is hidden journaling and it is addressed to the “Future Children” it reads:

This is my invitation to you…

“The Next Seven Generations”
What does the future hold for our next seven generations?
What do you see in the future of the inhabitants of the people on earth? What do you see for the future of our Earth? My Questions are….What are you doing about it? Are the decisions you making today, effecting the next Seven Generations?
I heard this song and I was so inspired to start making a difference for the next Seven Generations:

Dry your crying eyes, how can I explain, the fear you feel inside.
Because you were born, into this evil world, where man is killing man
and no one knows just why.
What have we become, just look what we have done,
all that we destroyed, you must build again.

When the children cry
Let them know we tried
'cause when the children sing
The new world begins

Little child, you must show the way, to a better day, for all the young.
Because you were born for the world to see, that we all can live, in light and peace.
No more presidents and all the wars will end one united world under god.

When the children cry, let them know we tried.
Because when the children fight, then we know it ain't right.
When the children break, let them know we're awake because
when the children sing
The new world begins…….

Treat the Earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.
Ancient Indian Proverb

In every deliberation we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine."
- Great Law of the Iroquois


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