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Words of Wisom pg.6
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You are going to learn the most important lesson - that God is the most
powerful thing there is.
Mathew King
LAKOTA
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Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new, sweet earth, and the great
silence alone.
Charles Alexander Eastman
OHIYESA SANTEE SIOUX
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When you are in the woods, you cannot ever be lost. You are surrounded by
friends and surrounded by God.
Joe Coyhis
STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE
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Silence is the cornerstone of character.
Charles Alexander Eastman
OHIYESA SANTEE SIOUX
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If I destroy you, I destroy myself. If I honor you, I honor myself.
Hunbatz Men
MAYAN
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Whenever you take anything from the earth, remember to leave an offering.
Joe Coyhis
STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE
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Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death
will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and
all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented
should not be grieved for.
Big Elk
OMAHA Chief
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
NEZ PERCE
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I'm an Indian, I'm one of God's children.
Mathew King
LAKOTA
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What could be greater than to be Wakan-Tanka's mind, eyes, ears, nose,
mouth, arms, hands, legs, and feet here on earth?
Fools Crow
LAKOTA
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Words hypnotize and deceive everyone at one time or another, but these
hypnotic words cannot last long in the hearts of true warriors.
Barney Bush
SHAWNEE
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Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.
Fools Crow
LAKOTA
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That is not our way, to set yourself apart and talk about who you are and
what you've done. You let your life speak for you. With the Mohawk people,
wisdom is how you live and how you interpret what your mother and father,
what your grandmothers and grandfathers have told you about this world - and
then how you interpret that into the fact of living every day.
Tom Porter
MOHAWK
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We have to educate ourselves to know who we are. That's what I mean when I
say, 'Teach the children.'
Eddie Benton-Banai
OJIBWAY
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When faithful human beings or other creatures called upon them for help,
they [the Powers of the Four Directions] must send their powers.
Fools Crow
LAKOTA
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We forget so we consider ourselves superior. But we are, after all, a mere
part of the creation and we must consider to understand where we are and we
stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there
is a part and parcel of the creation.
Chief Oren Lyons
ONONDAGA
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He [Wakan Tanka] walks with us along the pathways of Life, and He can do
for us what we could never do on our own.
Fools Crow
LAKOTA
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Respect should be given those indigenous nations who still carry on their
ceremonies; still following the ancient laws of nature with songs and
ceremonies.
Oren R. Lyons, Spokesman
Traditional Circle of Elders
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The god that people reject is not the true god, it is a god they have
conjured up apart from proper education, and understanding. In such cases,
the least Fools Crow will do is to call their assumptions into question, and
force them to re-evaluate their position.
Thomas Mails on
Fools Crow
LAKOTA
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I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts
more.
Chief Joseph
NEZ PERCE
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We are called hollow bones for our people and for anyone else we can help,
and we are not supposed to seek power for our personal use and honor.
Fools Crow
LAKOTA
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I am particularly found of the little groves of oak trees. I love to look
at them, because they endure the wintry storm and the summer's heat, and,
not unlike ourselves, seem to flourish by them.
Sitting Bull
SIOUX
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But in the Indian Spirit the land is still vested; it will be until other
men are able to divine and meet its rhythm. Men must be born and reborn to
belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefathers'
bones.
Luther Standing Bear
OGLALA SIOUX
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For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great
patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to
never stop learning.
Archie Fir Lame Deer
LAKOTA
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Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are
correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a
guide.
Thomas Yellowtail
CROW
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We have and old saying, Everything living must die. Only the rocks and
mountains are forever.
Archie Fire Lame Deer
LAKOTA
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Behold, my bothers, the spring has come; the earth has received the
embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love!
Sitting Bull
SIOUX
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Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every
hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad
or happy event in days long vanished.
Chief Sealth
DUWAMISH
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The basis of knowledge is the fire, rock, water, and green. But when that
power was given to man, he used it to twist his own mind. Tunkashila gave
man just one drop of that wisdom.
Wallace Black Elk
LAKOTA
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The one who wishes to be a true medicine person must be a person of faith,
and they can only work successfully with those who also have faith.
Fools Crow
LAKOTA
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Your power comes from the songs.
Ethel Wilson
COWICHAN
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Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of God.
Thomas Yellowtail
CROW
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So we are connected to the moon. That gives us power, a connection to the
earth and the moon, men don't know about.
Cecilia Mitchell
MOHAWK
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The faces of our future generations are looking up to us from the earth and
we step with great care not to disturb our grandchildren.
Traditional Circle of Elders
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The land is a sacred trust held in common for the benefit of the future of
our nations.
Haida Gwaii
Traditional Circle of Elders
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Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.
Thomas Yellowtail
CROW
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