ABSTRACT
Native Peoples have asserted the need to honor their ancient sacred traditions as integrally woven into the fabric of their cultural survival and land rights. For centuries, if not millennia, patriarchal religions have held that what is sacred is outside the world, removed from the body, from nature, from material being. The desacralized earth and her human children are thus fair game for exploitation. When bisexuals say that pleasure is sacred they take a firm stand on ancient sacred ground. When they fight for the right to determine their own erotic choices, they fight for the right of their own lesbian sisters and gay brothers to be who they are. The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, humans name these things as sacred: air, fire, water and earth. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life and so are sacred.
