Arabella Johnson Academic 2 Native American Quote October 4th, 2011

When all the trees have been cut down, When all the animals have been hunted, When all the waters are polluted, When all the air is unsafe to breathe, Only then will you discover you cannot eat money. Cree Indian Proverb

This tribes proverb is telling us that everything on this land is sacred, but we dont realize that, and with all of our cities, we are ruining the Earth. The Cree tribe is trying to tell us that if we dont change the way we live, that we will finally ruin our world, and have only money left to show for how the Earth ended up. This proverb is telling us to reverse the way we treat our Earth because the way we live is making the world polluted. All of our technology is making the world bad for all the animals, and the Cree Indians and most other Native Americans are blaming the white men that invaded their land. Factories put pollution by factories, cars, airplanes, and much more other ways of transportation that use gas. We put our sewer water into our lakes and into the oceans, which kill off our fish, and also makes fresh water undrinkable. We are making animals extinct by hunting them down and the more we kill the less likely that we will stop killing them before they have time to reproduce.

Slowly but surely we are cutting down a lot of trees. The North American continent used to have trees covering the land, but now we hardly have any trees left because of the big cities we have now. All that big cities make us is money. In the end, all that cutting down trees, hunting animals, pouring sewage water into lakes, and polluting the air is only going to bring us is money. All were going to have to show off for our work is money, which has no real value. You cannot eat it, nor can you use it for anything. Money would be useless without the trees, animals, water and air.