The alienation is also toward our own ancestral past, that dark evolutionary night from which we all came, that mothered us into our present form. . . . We came from somewhere. We have emerged with the rest of creation along an evolutionary path that is integral to the earth itself. For some reason there is a fear of these roots and of making our connection with the whole of creation. Our own inner Indigenous Ancestor has been pushed aside and all but forgotten.
— Fred R. Gustafson, Dancing Between Two Worlds