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  “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” asks Mary Oliver in perhaps her best known poem. What makes it wild? Maybe it’s just our birthright, as Jon Young might say. Bill Plotkin attests our wildness, our indigeneity to the earth is part of us, part of the wholeness of our being. Indigeneity is not meant to appropriate the status of First Nations. We are all from, part of, and connected to the earth. The primordial human, Adam, is from the earth, so by extension we are too.