Oren Lyons is a wisdom carrier one of the bearers of a variety of human tradition that can’t easily be reduced to a couple of sentences. One reason he isn’t more widely known is that he doesn’t actively seek forums from which to speak. If someone asks him, however, about the principles behind the particular Native American tradition of which he has, since 1967, been an appointed caretaker, he is glad to respond. He chooses his words carefully, and occasionally, these days, there is a hint of indignation in his voice, as if time were short and people generally wilful in their distraction.
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