We Need To Return To (The Real) Natural Law

Natural Law by the Sioux-Lakota

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_{April 25, 2024}

The following text is an excerpt from the book If You Have Forgotten The Names Of The Clouds, You’ve Lost Your Way written by the Sioux Lakota activist Russell Means and Bayard Johnson. The book was published in 2012. Perhaps its subheading clarifies what it is about: an introduction to American Indian thought and philosophy.

On the Internet one can find a lot of texts mainly about Western definitions of Natural Law, sometimes with hints about the concepts of Natural Law of other ‘close’ and ‘related cultures ‘. These elaborations tend to be abstract reflexions made by humans (usually males) about themselves within an institutionalized religious, or socioeconomic and cultural context, and are so abstract that they may be easily defined as intellectual eleborations of pure imagination or intellectual masturbations based on unreal or mind-constructed ideas and therefore very far away from reality.

We offer here two texts that define natural law as the laws of Nature, those laws we can notice if we observe the natural world we and all creatures are part of.

I believe, as other thinkers around the globe do, that indigenous cultures represent the light we can learn from in these dark and sinister times. The enlightenment we urgently need.

Furthermore, indigenous cultures with their different perspective, may help us to recognize that our social values and social organization is by no means universal and not the only option to organize our collective social living. And that a new world, a better one, is feasible.

KNM

NATURAL LAW

By Russell Means and Bayard Johnson

“Why will you take by force what you may obtain by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war?… We are unarmed, and willing to give you what you ask, if you come in a friendly manner”

Powhatan, Algonquin Confederacy, to John Smith 1609

From a Matriarchal perspective, the world is a nurturing place. A place where gifts are freely given. When the Spanish and Portuguese Conquistadores arrived, the Aztects and the Incas couldn’t understand why these newcomers were so crazed with greed for things like gold. All they had to do was ask, and the Indians would’ve given it to them.

Columbus, upon his first contact with Indians of the Caribbean, wrote that the natives were so generous and peaceful as to be a fault. A fault? Generosity and peacefulness a fault? What kind of world do you suppose he was coming from? The world of the Inquisition. The Dark Ages. The Black Death. The American Indians would become all too familiar with this world, very soon.

If you live in a world where everything you need is freely available, greed looks like a form of insanity. Why would anyone want more than they need? The Earth provides an unlimited supply. Just as a mother provides her child with every possible need, the Earth does the same for all her children, humans along with all other creatures.

If you follow Natural Law you are not afraid of death. You see the natural cycles of death and rebirth all around you, in your parents and your children, in the winter’s dormancy and the new leaves of spring, the regeneration of every kind of new life. Indigenous people do not cling to life, they are not fearful, when they are burdens to their societies they simply leave. In every cycle of nature through their entire lives they have observed rebirth, reincarnation-death and decay transformed into new life – and they know that we are all part of this cycle.

Specific details of how this cycle operates are not important. Indigenous people don’t lie and make things up when they don’t know the complete answer. They don’t pretend or claim to know things they have no way of knowing. They don’t write down the ravings of those hearing voices and claim that these are the words of some ‘god’…because life is lived in balance, language develops with no negatives only positives. There is no word for lying, in the Lakota language one is incapable of insulting anyone or anything. In Natural Law there is a place for everything – where is the evil? There is no evil in nature. Living by Natural Law, we perceive fully through the senses, we develop a full and rich appreciation for the real world around us, for what we experience in everyday life. For reality.

LIVING BY NATURAL LAW

“I love people who have always made me welcome to the best they had…who are honest without laws, who have no jails and no poor-houses…who never take the name of God in vain…who worship God without a Bible, and believe God loves them also…who are free from religious animosities…who have never raised a hand against me, or stolen my property, where there is no law to punish either…who never fought a battle with white men except on their own ground…and oh, how I love a people who don’t live for the love of money!”

George Caitlein, artist, 1830s

As Hunter-Gatherers, we watch the fox and the bear. When they eat berries, they don’t eat all the berries on the bush. When bears eat honey, they don’t destroy the hive, they take some and move on. There is always enough left for regeneration. So we know better than to empty out a piece of land of its food. That’s how you live with Natural Law.

Hunter-Gatherers never empty out their supermarket. They cause no harm to their environment whatsoever. There is no such thing as famine among hunter-gatherers because the sources of food are incredibly varied. They know where the water is – Mother Earth is their cornucopia, with all types of animals, vegetables and fruits available in every season. Hunter-gatherers know about storing food as well, both dried foods and using cellars. They knew the plants that were good for medicine, and where to find them.

With so little time required to devote to their own survival, hunter-gatherers had the freedom to care for themselves and for their families. They had time to bathe, to clean their teeth, to groom themselves and each other. To live by Natural Law, without conflict. There is no conflict in Natural Law. There is no evil.

If you think about it, when a child is born, where in the world is there evil? A bear or a mountain lion, killing and eating whatever they eat, is no more evil than a human who eats what humans eat. We are mindful of everything in the natural world that we use in the course of our lives. We offer thanks to the tree that we cut for use as a tipi pole. When you revere a plant, when you revere animals, it’s easy to see there isn’t any evil in the natural world.

Every good thought is a prayer. That is what we believe. That is why we don’t have church. Life is church, the Universe is our temple. To be conscious of the well-being of the Little People – what we call insects – that’s a form of prayer.

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