For oral tradition, when stories lead to a restorying of the past narrative, or the future antenarrative, they become living stories.Twotrees, K. (1997). Presentation at the Organizational Behavior Teaching conference, meeting at Case Western Reserve, Ohio. For example, David Boje says “living story has many authors and as a collective force has a life of its own. We live in living stories.”Boje, D. M. (2008). Storytelling organizations, London: Sage Page 338 In the work of Native scholar Twotrees, living stories have a mind, a time, and a place.Twotrees, K. (2000). Seven directions practice: A practice for the crossroads, The Fourth R (Vol. 92, August, Sept, October) published by CRENet (Conflict Resolution in Education Network). For Gregory Cajete and lived stories are the “life and process of the natural world becoming vehicles for the transmission of culture".Cajete, G. (2000). Native Science; Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers. page 94
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