by Carol Schaefer

Women elders offer their vision for our planet. "We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth's peoples and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking and healing are vitally needed today . . . We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future."