We need to ask ourselves how much time we give to our children and grandchildren because they are the link to the future. Deb relates, Today when I hear the elders talk, they are always praying for the unborn future generations of Indian people. This generation needs to remember those that are yet to come to make way and prepare for those that are yet to come. The younger generations need to be educated in the traditional American Indian ways. This education needs to come from American Indian people themselves.
Education needs to be balanced with the traditional way of life.
We should take our kids out to the sugarbush and berry picking. Education does not just occur between four walls. It is a way of life, and it is also an education. Maintaining the traditional way of life needs to be as pressing as the mainstream, white education. There are a lot of things people need to go back to maintain American Indian ways, one of which is the oral traditions.