Water cleanses the physical body, the mind and the spirit. Bathe in it, drink lots of it, do not take it for granted. When we lose something precious, something happens to our minds. We as native people lost a lot. There is a grieving process in all of this.
Anger then replaces the loss which is then expressed in two ways.
Once rejected, depression takes over and results in hopelessness. Then what you have is the 'fight or flight' attitude. It is this sense of despair and hopelessness that native people fight everyday. Starting in 1850 and ending around 1880 close to 90 million buffalo were killed. It was an effective way to bring the Plains American First Nations to their knees.