Interview · South Dakota · Pearl Kennedy-Colombe · OSEU 1
Themes: Land & stewardship, Values & generosity, Listening & observation
Learn About questions
1. What are ways that Mother Earth provides for peoples’ needs?
2. What happens to Mother Earth when nobody is replacing or replanting what is being removed?
3. How are cottonwood trees transplanted from existing trees?
Learn From questions
1. What are examples of ways that you use the resources that Mother Earth provides?
2. How close are you to the resources you use? Are there resources you gather raw from Mother Earth?
3. Do you think about finding ways to replace wha you have taken from Mother Earth? Why or why not?
Transcripts
Preventing the Concrete Jungle - Pearl Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #1
Watch this interview on YouTubeThen I look at the destruction. What were they talking about in California today? The concrete jungle, you know. And they wonder why it's hot in that country, you know? It's scary. It's scary because nobody's replacing stuff. Nobody's replanting.
You know, I found out that, like, for a Cottonwood Tree, its tree is growing big. But if you cut, like, four of the branches off, stuck’em in the ground, that they would take. I had a girl, a neighbor in Crow Creek… didn't have any trees around her. And, you know, there wasn't any plan for any program to put trees up. But the government cut down a bunch of cottonwoods that were growing in a ditch. So, she ran down there and took a bunch of them branches and put them in around her house. Today, they're full-grown trees, you know.
My husband went and got some post ash wood and he put in a yard. He's always putting fixing fence around the house… always fencing me in. Here, one of them trees started growing and started getting branches. And I thought that was really neat… thought he was going to leave it there. And here he went and cut all the branches off. You just killed it.
But I can't see why there has to be so much destruction. And I can't understand why they're still letting people in when you look at the space and what they've done to the country.
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OSEU 1: INTERVIEW WITH PEARL KENNEDY-COLOMBE
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Preventing the Concrete Jungle
Preventing the Concrete Jungle - Pearl
Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #1
Then I look at the destruction. What were they talking about in California today? The
concrete jungle, you know. And they wonder why it's hot in that country, you know? It's
scary. It's scary because nobody's replacing stuff. Nobody's replanting.
You know, I found out that, like, for a Cottonwood Tree, its tree is growing big. But if you
cut, like, four of the branches off, stuck’em in the ground, that they would take. I had a
girl, a neighbor in Crow Creek… didn't have any trees around her. And, you know, there
wasn't any plan for any program to put trees up. But the government cut down a bunch
of cottonwoods that were growing in a ditch. So, she ran down there and took a bunch
of them branches and put them in around her house. Today, they're full-grown trees, you
know.
My husband went and got some post ash wood and he put in a yard. He's always
putting fixing fence around the house… always fencing me in. Here, one of them trees
started growing and started getting branches. And I thought that was really neat…
thought he was going to leave it there. And here he went and cut all the branches off.
You just killed it.
But I can't see why there has to be so much destruction. And I can't understand why
they're still letting people in when you look at the space and what they've done to the
country.