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*The expression is in Ichishkiin, a Sahaptin language dialect of the Pacific Northwest.
“Water takes care of everything upon the land: the land itself, the people, us, our foods, our medicines, our roots, our berries, the animals, and the very fish that swim in the waters.”
A Kelly-Springfield logging truck hauls a large fir log along a track-like wooden logging road. Behind the truck are acres of cutover land, ca. 1925. Photograph by J. Wilbur Sandison, courtesy of the PEMCO Webster and Stevens Collection, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle 1983.10.3675.10