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She wrote:

"I thought, then said, 'This land makes Crees of us all.' By this I meant that it appeared to me that the Crees, for example, developed the culture they developed because it was the best fit between themselves and the land. And it was the land that taught them that." ¹

And I replied, "We are all becoming Indians."

¹ Butala, Sharon, the perfection of the morning: an apprenticeship in nature. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1994. p.87.

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