Humans are not naturally harmful, war-faring beings. It takes a lot of trauma to fashion such a loving creature into a weapon. Our nature is awe, our predisposition is generosity. Our propensity is towards love. It takes work and endurance on behalf of Coyote to play on our fears and weaknesses and break us down from understanding the One Great Circle that has to be built-in abundance, built-in beauty, built-in wonder, and built-in community.
— Dr. Lyla June Johnston
This quote are the closing words by Dr. Lyla June Johnston, in Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair by Hilary Giovale.
Johnston is a poet, singer-songwriter, hip-hop artist, human ecologist, public speaker and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages.
