Swinging Bridge

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir
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The swinging bridge just downstream of the Kootenai River Falls in northwest Montana. To the Native Americans that once called this area home, the falls is a sacred site. They view it as the center of the world, a place where tribal members can commune with the spiritual forces that give direction to the tribe and to individual members. Archaeological evidence shows the Kootenai Tribe built sweat lodges and encampments up and down he river where this photo was taken.