In a traditional story of the People of the Long
House; it is told, so they say, that human beings
moved to an area and discovered it was the territory
of a large wolf pack.  They knew that with great
effort over a period of years, they could kill all the
wolves, but this would make them a changed people, no
longer members of Earth’s natural order.  So the human
beings chose to move away and leave the land to the
wolves.  In later years, when faced with a critical
decision, someone from the tribe would stand up and
ask:  “Tell me my brothers, tell me my sisters!  Who
speaks for the Wolf?”   I’d say that’s what it means
to be a human being.”