Mother Earth Introduction

  • Mission Mountains Sunset, Flathead Reservation, Montana, 2007 by Sue Reynolds
    Mission Mountains Sunset, Flathead Reservation, Montana, 2007 by Sue Reynolds
  • Bear Paw Battlefield, Where Chief Joseph Surrendered, Montana, 2008 by Sue Reynolds
    Bear Paw Battlefield, Where Chief Joseph Surrendered, Montana, 2008 by Sue Reynolds
  • Prairie and Ranches From Bear Butte, Black Hills of South Dakota, 2009 by Sue Reynolds
    Prairie and Ranches From Bear Butte, Black Hills of South Dakota, 2009 by Sue Reynolds
  • Quinton White Quills at Tom Crawford’s Youth Program, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, 2015 by Sue Reynolds
    Quinton White Quills at Tom Crawford’s Youth Program, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, 2015 by Sue Reynolds
  • Emmett Martin Holding a Rock with a Story, Mobridge, South Dakota, 2015 by Sue Reynolds
    Emmett Martin Holding a Rock with a Story, Mobridge, South Dakota, 2015 by Sue Reynolds

No single view of nature existed or exists among the hundreds of Native American tribes in the United States, but common beliefs and practices regarding nature’s land and animals have included appreciation, respect and reverence.

Dixon August Sky

Rainbow fills the sky with those light pastels
I love so much, red, gray, orange hues so soft
Over Red Sleep Mountain waiting
To find their place on the horizon.


Red Sleep Mountain within the boundaries
Of the National Bison Range, good for a name,
But then there are the Salish Mountains
North of the Bison Range. How is that for a name
All in one place, right from my back room?
I see Red Sleep Mountain.
I am the Salish Mountains.

Dirty Corner Poems and Other Stories, by Victor A. Charlo. Available on Amazon.