We are cultural ambassadors. We are politicians. We are activists. We are all of this simply by nature of what we do, without even wanting to be . In the language and dialect of the Delaware Indians and a legend of the Creation, the Great Flood, Migration and History from their beginning to the time of the coming of the white man to the eastern shore of Delaware.
Plants explode into growth, tracking the midnight sun.
Birds flock as far as the eye can see, hailing from lands as distant as Argentina. The large mammals caribou, musk-ox, narwhal, beluga and bowhead whales undertake eternal and herculean journeys to their respective calving grounds. For a few brief months, the Arctic is as alive as a jungle, which it once was an unfathomable number of years ago. And as their most distant ancestors before them also did, Inuit groups come together in this time, to celebrate life and prosperity in a way that is all their own. Truth is, most classical depictions of indigenous people mark them as stone faced, honor obsessed, primitive pagans.