Grandmothers Counsel the World

Women elders offer their vision for our planet

By Carol Schaefer

" We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers... We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth's peoples, and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.

We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are virtually needed today... We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future."