Evelyn del Rosario Moran Cojoc says, 'I have art classes in the villages where they don't have enough to eat. A young boy came up to me and approached me. I thought he was going to ask me for food but he asked me for a pencil. He had a hunger for knowledge.' She emphasizes the importance of nurturing creativity and pride in indigenous culture among youth through art.
I feel like it's a redundant message in my writing. Our Indigenous way of life is beautiful. Living in relationship with the land and water is so rich and so life-filling that all the diversions in Western cultivated society cannot hold a candle to a calm day on the water.