Even more difficult is that well known fact that among Northern Canadian peoples, the drum speaks. Drum language can deliver a very powerful message. Drums are used widely throughout Indigenous ceremonials, and they have that place precisely because they speak a "ritual" language. That language is valued and respected. It has legal authority in a community that adheres to Ritual Law. Certainly it has its own message of truth and life.

This is not the only way that Nature's Law is encountered…as we know, it is encountered in the natural environment. Perhaps many possible cases can be subsumed under a few words from a great old Tsuu T'ina holy man, Tatanga Mani:

Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other and they'll talk to you if you listen. Trouble is, white people don't listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians, so I don't suppose they'll listen to other voices in nature. But I have learned a lot from trees; sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit.