The details suggest that "They believe it is right to respect the lives of animals." The excerpt illustrates the interconnectedness between the Nishnaabeg and various animal nations, indicating their awareness of the consequences of neglecting these relationships and the emotional weight they carry when they fail to care for their relatives, both human and animal.
Excerpt from “Our Treaty is With the Hoof Nation”
From The Gift Is in the Making by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Nishnaabeg wished they had been paying better attention. They wished they had been taking better care of their relatives.
The people started feeling sad and guilty and worried—and hungry. And do you know what happens when you’re feeling sad and guilty and worried and hungry? That sad and guilty and worried and hungry mixes altogether and stews and grows and Grows AND GRows AND GROws AND GROws.
And then that sad and guilty and worried and hungry turns into something different.Those Amikwag get a little slappy with their tails.
The Jijaakwag start to get a little bossy.
The Migiziwag start to get nippy.
Those Makwag get even more growly than usual.
Those Zhigaagwag get a little careless with their medicine, spraying it all over.
And then everything starts to go in the wrong direction.
So, those Nishinaabeg decided to do something before everything got all lost. They got up before the sun one morning, lit a sacred fire. They prayed, sang, and offered their semaa.
Use the excerpt from “Our Treaty with the Hoof Nation” to answer the question.
The narrator states that the Nishnaabeg wished they had been taking better care of their relatives, and that “the people started feeling sad and guilty and worried—and hungry.” What do these details suggest about the identities of the Anishinaabe people?
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They only honor their human relatives.
They only honor their human relatives.
They believe humans are more important than animals.
They believe humans are more important than animals.
They believe it is right to respect the lives of animals.
They believe it is right to respect the lives of animals.
They only care about food and feeling full.
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