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Every seed is awakened and so is all animal life.
The environmental wisdom and spirituality of North American Indians is legendary. Animals were respected as equal in rights to humans. Of course they were hunted, but only for food, and the hunter first asked permission of the animal's spirit. Many Indians had an appreciation of nature's beauty as intense as any Romantic poet. Religious beliefs varied between tribes, but there was a widespread belief in a Great Spirit who created the earth, and who pervaded everything.