Beliefs
The College maintains four core Lummi Beliefs:
- Selalexw
- Our strength comes from the old people. From them we receive our teachings and knowledge and the advice we need for our daily lives.
- Schtengexwen
- We are responsible to protect our territory. This means we take care of our land and the water and everything that is on it and in it.
- Xwlemichosen
- Our culture is our language. We should strengthen and maintain our language.
- Lengesot
- We take care of ourselves, watch out for ourselves, and love and take care of each other.
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Famous quotes containing the word beliefs:
“It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“Both Eliot and Pound condense; their best verse is weighted—Pound’s, with sensual experience primarily, and Eliot’s with beliefs. Where the mind’s life is concerned the senses produce images, and beliefs produce dramatic cries. The condensation is important.”
—R.P. Blackmur (1904–1965)