First Uniting Nations

Honey, why doesn't the United Nations include the First Nations? Are you asking about Babylon or Native Americans? Who were, at the time, thought to be more like wild Indians by the movers and shakers of rapid industrializing history. What about a Security Council made up of the Maple Tree Nation and the RainForest Nation and the WaterDweller Nation and the WingedFlight Nation? I suspect that would be a transportation and a communication nightmare. Your First Nations are too wild and voiceless for nurturing mutual health and wealth translations. What language could they understand and speak together? Is that why the Security Council is composed of its current constituencies, because they share a common health as wealth language everybody understands and speaks cooperatively together? Probably not. I wonder if they might like to adopt some First Nation Golden Rules for planting and harvesting. (adapted from Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, p. 183) Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so you may have the first clue how to take care of yourself, by taking care of them too. That would seem to preclude rabid overpopulating infestation of any one overbearing Species, or Nation, or monoculture. It does shed a variegated light on UncleSam's ways of taking and giving care to existing United Nations and First Nations and even His own health and climate care giving and receiving. So what's the next First Nation Planting and Harvesting Protocol? Introduce yourself, by re-introducing your active gratitude. Become, and sustain, accountable integrity as one who approaches each living system asking to share cooperative life. More of a WinWin mutual namaste, and less of a who grabs whose hand first and shakes the last life out of it the hardest and fattest and longest. Yes. I see it more like multiculturing root systems in a forest waking up to a new spring day totally in love with each other, each in a uniquely knowing way. That does sound like reasonable understory protocol for a Security Council surrounded above by a forest of United First Nations. What's next, if I may ask? Ask permission before taking no more than half. Accept feedback. No means not yet, and sometimes never. Yes may also include but not yet, and sometimes always and forever, more timelessly. Never take the first because everlasting keeps the last. I guess what is first and last is like figuring out similarities and differences between First Nations and last natives. And the first clue and last premonition. Anyway, take only what you need and no more than half what appears freely available. Share cooperatively, which is more positively, and democratically, sustainable than competing side by side. Re-invest respectfully, with full ecological authority. Never waste what First Nations have invested in you. Remain as grateful as possible. Become a national treasure, in reciprocity for what you have received. Succeed with the ones who succeeded toward you and Earth will revolve Eden forests and habitats fit for First and Last Nations forever. Sounds like Yin planting nurtures health care giving. And swells like Yang harvesting health care re-investments of and for First United Nation ecopolitical grace.