CHAPTER 4 Discourse Beyond Language Cultural Rhetoric, Revelatory Insight, and Nature Donal Carbaugh and David Boromisza-Habashi        On a beautiful fall day in Cody, Wyoming, Scott Frazier, a member of the Native American Crow Nation, was discussing water and wind. As an educa- tor, he had been invited to speak on these matters at a conference on Native Land and the People of the Great Plains. Mr. Frazier spoke energetically to his mostly Native audience about the importance traditional people place on watching and observing one’s surroundings. He summarized his point through a slowly paced, highly relective, measured tone, in these words: Listen to the wind or water If we quit listening he spirits quit talking hen we stop We don’t want to stop Indeed! As Mr. Frazier directed us, if we listen to wind and water, we can open our eyes and ears to the world around us. So opened, our minds can sense in the world its spirited nature, and learn from it. his deep process is identiied by Mr. Frazier as “listening,” and through it, we are ofered a way, not of stop- ping, but of keeping things going, becoming better educated, equipped with a proper knowledge that is more attuned to the world that surrounds us. We have placed Mr. Frazier’s words above in a particular format in an efort to capture some of their spoken qualities. Each line was spoken as an Carbaugh, D. & Boromisza-Habashi, D. (2011). Discourse beyond language: Cultural rhetoric, revelatory insight, and nature. In C. Meyer & F. Girke (Eds.), The rhetorical emergence of culture (pp. 101-118). Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books. (The chapter is to appear in Carbaugh's forthcoming book, "Just listen: Blackfeet communication and culture.")