Peacemaker’s sacred ground is buried under sixty feet of industrial waste

Evidence

Today, the land where the Peacemaker walked and the Tree of Peace stood isn’t land at all, but beds of industrial waste sixty feet deep. It sticks to shoes like thick white school paste used in kindergartens to glue cutout birds onto construction-paper trees. There aren’t too many birds here, and the Tree of Peace is buried. The original people could no longer find even the familiar curve of the shore. The old contours were filled in, creating a new shoreline of more than a mile of waste beds. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1146

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• XREF: Concretizes ch8’s claim that ‘every place is inspirited’ and that recognizing a place transforms it — here sacred place is literally un-recognizable, its contours erased.