31/07/2025
Please continue to respect our living Earth home.
The earth has shaken again, my relatives.
Far across the waters, off the Kamchatka coast, the land moved with the strength of 8.8 — a number the scientists call it, but we know it as the deep groan of Mother Earth herself. She shifted in her bones, and her voice carried across the oceans.
Now the waves rise — not gently, but with warning. The people of Japan, Hawaii, the Kuril Islands, even our relatives on the West Coast, are told to move from the water’s edge. The sea that nourishes can also take back what it has given.
We remember the great quake in Tohoku in 2011, and how it carried sorrow across the world. We remember Chile in 1960, when the strongest quake ever known shook both land and spirit. These are not just numbers in a book — they are reminders that we walk on the back of a living being, and she is powerful.
The old ones told us that the waters are alive, that they listen, that they carry memory. When they rise like this, it is not just danger — it is also a message. We must walk with humility. We must pray for those moving to higher ground tonight, for those caught in traffic, for the children whose eyes do not yet understand why their parents are hurrying them inland.
Let us hold them in our hearts.
Let us remember, too, that the land and the water are not our enemies — they are our relatives, reminding us of balance.
Mîkwêc, Creator, for this warning before the waves grow higher. May the people be safe. May the waters return to calm. And may we remember that every step we take is on living ground.
—Kanipawit Maskwa
John Gonzalez
Standing Bear Network
[Image Description-
Television helicopter footage captures tsunami as it devastates north-east Japan on March 11, 2011. -End ID]
