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5.0 out of 5 stars A Bridge Between Indigenous People and Environmentalists, June 22, 2000
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This review is from: The Way It Is: One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth (Paperback)
Enmeshed in the high-tech, hyperspeed, information-age economy, it's easy for most of us to forget that we simply cannot survive without clean air, clean water, clean soil. It's also easy to shrug off your concerns by thinking, "What can one person do?" Corbin Harney, a spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone tribe, demonstrates what one person with a vision can do. "The Way It Is" is a wake-up call. It lays out Harney's vision of the law of life, the law that native peoples have always understood--that we have only one planet to take care of.

Since 1985, Harney and other Western Shoshone people have been fighting against nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. (The Nevada Test Site occupies land that the federal government illegally seized from the tribe in the 1940s to use for weapons testing.) The elderly Harney has totally dedicated himself to healing people, healing the land, and--most important--sharing his vision about the damage that nuclear pollution and other environmental abuses are doing to the land, air, and water. In down-to-earth, direct language, Mr. Harney lays out his beliefs and speaks directly to your heart.

His vision about water is alarming: "One time...when I was praying for the water, the water said to me, 'I'm going to look like water, but pretty soon nobody's going to use me.' Now, wherever I go, the people talk about their water being contaminated, and they can't use it."

Harney leads ceremonies and healing rituals on tribal land in Nevada and travels the Earth to talk to whomever will listen, telling them to pray for the Earth.

Over the years, he has achieved the stature of a moral authority for the Earth. He says, "I pray in the mornings for the sun, the air, the water, plants, the animals, the rocks. Those prayers have been passed on down from way back for thousands of years, but we haven't been doing enough of these things, of taking care of things, and now we have to come back to it. We are going to have to start taking care of things again."

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A most important message to every world citizen !, February 7, 2002
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This review is from: The Way It Is: One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth (Paperback)
Get this book and read it , but read it with the eyes of your heart ! Your heart will understand this message easely - and then go and walk your talk in balace and beauty , and live it everyday , for the benefit of all what lives ! Give your children and the no-eyes , the unborn , a future which is worth to be lived !
We suggest to Amazon.com : sponsor a free copy to every US-citizen - this would be the most important action done so far , and Amazon would become famous for ever , Yeah !
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5.0 out of 5 stars "The World is as sharp as a knife", August 21, 2009
This review is from: The Way It Is: One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth (Paperback)
and the truth shall set you free. Read this book at all costs. Learn from someone who lives on the frontlines everyday, a man with so much humility and heart. Uncle Corbin left a good trail for us to learn from, now its time we make up our minds and get walking on our own straight path.


RIP Uncle, we miss your walk.
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