Excerpt
p. 126
Circle Poems in the Native American Spirit

I tell [students] the Native American way sees the world as a circle: humans occupy a place in the circle, but so does everything else in the natural world—rivers and hail and beavers and canyons and canyons and jackrabbits and meadows and roses and thistles and creeks and ocean and whales…

Also published in The Story in History.