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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“The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
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