Berry believes that the European colonial settlers and their descendants have been predators on both the inhabitants of the land and the land itself, by their industrious ways of doing things and their domineering mentality or “manifest destiny”. According to the writer, who is an icon in Earth-based spirituality, these European settlers refused to consider the ways of the indigenous peoples. They ignored the fact that the first peoples had been living in that very land for ages and consequently, had more knowledge on what to and what not to do. But how could these European settlers have…