I hate to think the place I played in as a child might someday become unrecognisable, but I still give thanks.
![The writer and her grandmother [Photo courtesy of Terese Marie Mailhot]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/35414698_10155361766366502_5595252933873631232_n.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Terese Marie Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band and is New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries: A Memoir.
I hate to think the place I played in as a child might someday become unrecognisable, but I still give thanks.
![The writer and her grandmother [Photo courtesy of Terese Marie Mailhot]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/35414698_10155361766366502_5595252933873631232_n.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
I have no human form – though once, we walked like people do. Trees still walk, just slower.
