Alex Jack, an elderly
Gitxsan man, living in the Stikine Valley in British Columbia, tells
a story of his father encountering a Catholic missionary at the turn
of the century. Jack’s father was utterly confounded by the
Christian notion of heaven. He could not believe that a person was
expected to give up all the things that made life worth living, in
order to go to a place where they did not allow animals. “No
caribou?” he would say in complete astonishment. He could not
conceive of a world without wild things.
p.36 Light at the Edge of
the World - Wade Davis
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