Traditional Seminole land sustains life where industrial farms are dead

Evidence

As Bobby Billie looked across the moat-like channel that separates one of their traditional villages of chickees from a freeze-burned field of a big farmer, he sighed: “You look out there, and everything is dead. But look in here, and everything is alive.” — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 223

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the grafting/growth essay frame of traditional land stewardship outperforming extractive industrial agriculture at the same spot.
• XREF: Doctrine-of-discovery’s legal heirs — agribusiness title holders — leave land dead while the landless ‘squatters’ preserve life; a living reversal of the civilizing narrative. — connects to: Seminoles see their own health decline as mirroring the endangered panther’s — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 230