Walking in beauty in broken glass

Sometimes it is hard to walk in beauty when the reservation is littered with glass all along the roads and paths.  If you look on the ground with the sun reflecting, sometimes you can see thousands of sparkles from all the broken glass in the dirt, asphalt, or concrete.  The alcohol drinkers are usually the ones who litter the land with all their alcohol bottles.  Sometimes kids find the bottles and break the glass for a thrill.  Either way, they don't value the land. They probably don't realize that others have to use the same roads and pathways and breaking glass poses a danger towards others.  They don't realize that they might go down the same path and injure themselves.  Those broken glass shards hide in the dirt and are razor sharp and can easily cut flesh.

Sharp as a knife

Most of the time, the alcohol drinkers are probably miserable in their lives and to cope with that misery, they need to drink.  Then they share their misery with others by polluting the environment and to make others miserable.  Why hasn't any tribal politician address this problem yet?  We have yet to find a solution to pick-up all the millions of broken glass shards that litter our Dine Bikeya.  It's just another indicator that we as a society have a bigger problem.