“The Great Creator” is “the intelligence that created everything.”(OI, Nelson, xix) “Mother Earth and Father Sky are the creative principle that we have in this universe. All creation and compassion for each other comes from this understanding.” (OI, Goldtooth, 227) “That nature is within us as well.”(OI, Parhuli, 314)
Indeed, we are nature at work and conscious of itself. “This mind has been provided to us as a give from the Creator, one that allows us to be creative and to be able to develop ways to live in common with each other and to live in a sustainable way on this planet.” (OI, Goldtooth, 221) Linguist, Dan Moonhawk Alford wrote… ‘God is Not a Noun in Native American…not simply a transcendent, divine force or power, outside of our human experience…the divine or the sacred is…a new; it is active…a creative process that…all peoples have a right and obligation to participate in on a moment to moment basis throughout our actions, thoughts, and behavior…a very different world view from the Eurocentric perspective of a monotheistic Divinity, of a single God that is a noun, and authority, a…transcendent entity separate from our world.”(OI, Martinez, et.al., 109) “Our original instruction is that we have intelligence so we need to use it clearly and coherently. We need to take responsibility for our lives and think. We must use our intelligence to think, to create the reality that must be created.”(OI, Trudell, 320) “We are co-creators with the plants and animals, and unlike Islam, Judaism, and Christianity God did not crate the earth and then rest on the seventh day. Every day is Creation.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 108) “Indigenous Knowledge” gives “a practical responsibility to all of Creation, all of our relatives on the earth.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 109) (*connect true power, put constructive/destructive creativity)
Indeed, we are nature at work and conscious of itself. “This mind has been provided to us as a give from the Creator, one that allows us to be creative and to be able to develop ways to live in common with each other and to live in a sustainable way on this planet.” (OI, Goldtooth, 221) Linguist, Dan Moonhawk Alford wrote… ‘God is Not a Noun in Native American…not simply a transcendent, divine force or power, outside of our human experience…the divine or the sacred is…a new; it is active…a creative process that…all peoples have a right and obligation to participate in on a moment to moment basis throughout our actions, thoughts, and behavior…a very different world view from the Eurocentric perspective of a monotheistic Divinity, of a single God that is a noun, and authority, a…transcendent entity separate from our world.”(OI, Martinez, et.al., 109) “Our original instruction is that we have intelligence so we need to use it clearly and coherently. We need to take responsibility for our lives and think. We must use our intelligence to think, to create the reality that must be created.”(OI, Trudell, 320) “We are co-creators with the plants and animals, and unlike Islam, Judaism, and Christianity God did not crate the earth and then rest on the seventh day. Every day is Creation.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 108) “Indigenous Knowledge” gives “a practical responsibility to all of Creation, all of our relatives on the earth.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 109) (*connect true power, put constructive/destructive creativity)