For his Grade 10 English Class my son Alex (15) wrote a poem about Clean Drinking Water for the Anishinaabe in Canada and around the World ... he also created this short animation making hundreds of hand drawings and paintings with the Autodesk Sketchbook on his iPad..... It took him several days to make.
He told me I could share his animation on Hive. You can Subscribe to his Youtube Channel “Big Water Films” since he has decided to make many more short animations over the summer
Big Water Films : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQsB-RbipAy662wwTGNIQHg
“Sacred Waters” - A Short Animated Film By Alex (Big Water Films) and on Hive.blog
He dedicated this work to his great great grandmother Sai-Sai-go-No- Kwe from Mackinac Island, Michigan and Killarney Ontario, Canada.
The first drawing is of Black Elk, a great Teacher.
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
― Black Elk
“The Holy Land is everywhere”
― Black Elk
“And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.”
― Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition
“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”
― Black Elk