Poet Kinsale Hueston Performs “​​after Sacred Water”

In honor of Native American History Month, NRDC asked five Indigenous poets to share original works of environmental poetry that speak directly to future generations. Their pieces grapple with grief and loss-from the construction of unnatural borders to the destruction caused by a warming world-while honoring their relationships to the plants, animals, and topography of their ancestral land.
Kinsale Hueston is a Diné poet, performer, and junior at Yale University studying the intersections of cultural (re)vitalization movements, Indigenous poetry, and Indigenous feminism. Usually based on occupied Tongva Lands (Los Angeles), she works with Native youth in storytelling and mental health programming, edits Changing Wxman Collective, and can often be found penning love poems to the high desert. She currently lives on occupied Quinnipiac Land in New Haven, Connecticut.
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‘To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.’ ~ Arundhati Roy

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Powerful

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Applause!

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Beautiful girl

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Love it & her speaking! Water should be of our utmost clarity above all else! Without wonderful clean drinking water for all to drink we are doomed! Our very Oceans along with those that live in water along with the polluting & hazardous chemicles, plastics, Huge Oil Leaks, along with other dumping of debree of dumping Vast amounts of contamination, to fishing nets, & fishing lines & nets are depleting our most valuable Resource! As far as im concerned there should be very very strict rules in place to save our waters, as Water is Life! We are destroying our very most essential of resources we depend on! Of course certain things are out of our control, but look what is happening to our World! Greed/Lobbyist by the thousands-Super Pacs donating Billions through Schemes and Pay Offs, no matter what the cost to our very own existence is controlling everything with payoffs for the most part! People had better take heed, not to mention our very old infrastruture of outdated Dams, very old lead piping put in a 100 years ago that pours black sludge from our very old sinks we drink water from! The cost would be the largest bill ever passed but we had better get ready, because along with climate change & the infighting whether you are a D/R, or Independent, we had better focus on one huge thing at a time & stop with the party lines! I truly wish there were no such thing as Republicans, Dems, Independents, or whatever party line you are in! Come together & focus on what’s the most crucial of things & get it done! I’m sick of the most important of things.. “not getting things done”! Not Once in my life of 60 plus years.. have all parties agreed 100% across the board on any issue! Not Once… This is why I refuse to discuss Openly any debate about Polotics or Religion as I’ve been in mgt 4 times at 4 different jobs! I don’t tolerate it at work as I’ve seen push come to almost fights over disagreements! I do know this… If we do not come together to take better care of out essentials we need to survive… withinin 50 years from today, this world is is big bad trouble! I’m glad I won’t be here to see it, & God Blesx the handful of sympathizers (although small in numbers), who are trying to make the changes! In closing we are now faster than ever destroying our planet! 😢

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and not only America! This is a WordWide Agenda!