![]() ![]() She was known as Martha, and she lived all alone in the Cincinnati zoo. It was 100 years ago this fall on Septemthat the last passenger pigeon passed from this Earth. ![]() They could take days to pass by overhead flocks so large that their collective weight in roosting broke off the limbs of trees. That’s where the stories come in, because once upon a time, the skies over the Potawatomi homelands carried flocks of birds so vast they darkened the sky. ![]() I want to say at the outset that I will not tell you anything today that you don’t already know, but we forget, we human people … our elders have told us that our job is to remember. Listen to her story by watching the video below or reading the transcript that follows. In her presentation at the 2014 Bioneers Conference, Kimmerer brings to life the heartbreak inherent in the commoditization of nature and human development without reverence for Mother Earth. And she asks this question as she bears witness to global climate change, the disturbance of natural habitats, and the destruction of native lands. She asks this question as she tells the stories of Native American displacement, which forever changed the lives of her ancestors. Robin Kimmerer, Potawatomi Indigenous ecologist, author, and professor, asks this question as she ponders the fleeting existence of our sister species-species such as the passenger pigeon, who became extinct a century ago. ![]()
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