Wilderness for the indigenous Americans

The indigenous people from the Americans use wilderness in their tales as a form of inspiration. They connect wilderness to their heritage. It helps to remind them of who they are and where they came from. When the white people starting making advances towards them, the Indians used this stories containing wilderness in order to remind the people of what is really important. They also consider wilderness as a gift. Just look at the creation tales for example. In the Pima's story, the creator was a great man who gave them all of wilderness. He gave them water, light, and everything that need to survive. To these people, wilderness is life. That's something we take for granted nowadays. We consider life to be our technology and cars and jobs. We don't consider the water we need or the land we rely on. That was the Indians' everything and they knew that. To the Indians, wilderness was everything good and pure in the world. That's still how I look at wilderness. In modern day, wilderness doesn't seem to have that beautiful appeal anymore.