Topic: NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY & HEALING - part 2 | |
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"I myself have no power. Real power comes only from the Creator. It's in His hands. But if you're asking about strength, not power, then I can say that the greatest strength.., is gentleness.
You call it wild, but it wasn't really wild, it was free. Animals aren't wild, they're just free. Look behind you. See your sons and your daughters. They are your future. Look farther, and see your sons' and your daughters' children and their childrens' children even unto the Seventh generation. That's the way we were taught. Think about it: you yourself are a Seventh Generation!" ---- Leon Shenandoah (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy) |
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..."And when your childrens' children think themselves alone... they will not be alone...At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land."....
---- Chief Seattle 1855 |
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"My friend, I do not blame you for this. Had I listened to you this trouble would not have happend to me. I was not hostile to the white man....All we wanted was peace and to be left alone...
I came here with the agent (Lee) to talk with Big White Chief, but was not given a chance. They tried to confine me, I tried to escape, and a soldier ran his bayonet into me. I have spoken." ---- Crazy Horse's final words (Oglala Sioux) |
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"My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more, forever."
---- Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) |
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"Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit."
---- Tecumseh (Shawnee) |
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Edited by
theseacoast
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Wed 03/04/15 06:15 AM
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"Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit." ---- Tecumseh (Shawnee) I liked very much that part about Tecumseh of the series We Shall Remain. What might happened if he hadn�t been betrayed! Who knows, but I really admire his spirit. I knew you meant this.. and since I can't speak another language as fluently as you can.., it would be wrong for me to criticize your word choices here..
There are two kinds of critics, and I know, that critics from you is meant in a good way. So please, when I use wrong word or expression or make any mistake, do tell me. Besides, I should learn english better and this would help me to improve my vocabulary Miigwetch! |
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Edited by
jagbird
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Thu 03/05/15 05:47 AM
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.....There are two kinds of critics, and I know, that ..."critics"... <--> (criticism).... from you is meant in a good way. So please, when I use wrong word or expression or make any mistake, do tell me. Besides, I should learn english better and this would help me to improve my vocabulary Miigwetch! Okay... Just made a correction than, in your paragraph above... "critics".... You still get an A+ though, Ms. Seacoast... -------- Tecumseth was a great man.. Agreed... Who knows what this area of the world would be like, had all agreements been honored... and the sharing and learning and teachings would have all been embraced with open hearts and open minds...? We might easily not be in the struggle to heal Mother Earth, as we now are.. |
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"We never had a thought of exchanging our land for any other... Fearing the consequences may be similar to transplanting an old tree, which would wither and die away."
---- Levi Colbert (Chickasaw) |
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"We lived on our land as long as we can remember. The land was owned by our tribe as far back as memory of men goes."
---- Standing Bear (Ponca) |
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"When God made the world, he gave one part to the white man and another to the Apache."
---- Cochise (Chiricahua Apache) |
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"Will you ever begin to understand the meaning of the soil beneath your very feet? From a grain of sand to a great mountain, all is sacred. Yesterday and tomorrow exist eternally upon this continent. We natives are the guardians of this sacred place."
---- Peter Blue Cloud (Mohawk) |
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"Somewhere a good man must rise from the young ones among us."
---- Crazy Horse's Father, to a young "Crazy Horse" |
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"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk"....
...."We had buffalo for food, and their hides for clothing and our tipis. We preferred hunting to a life of idleness on the reservations where we were driven against our will." ---- Crazy Horse |
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"That flute of ours, the "Siyotanka" is for only one kind of music - love music."
---- "The Legend Of The Flute" / Brule Sioux |
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"Inside Mount Scott the world was green & fresh, as it had been when she was a small girl. The rivers ran clear, not red. The wild plums were in blossom, chasing the redbuds up the inside slopes. Into this world of beauty the buffalo walked...., never to be seen again."
---- "Legend Of The Buffalo Go" / Kiowa |
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...."The white buffalo woman disappeared over the horizon. Sometime she might come back. As soon as she vanished, buffalo in great herds appeared, allowing themselves to be killed so that the people might survive.
And from that day on, our relations, the buffalo, furnished the people with everything they needed - meat for their food, skins for their clothes and tipis, bones for their many tools.".... ---- "Legend Of The White Buffalo Woman" / Brule Sioux |
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Edited by
jagbird
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Sat 03/07/15 04:58 AM
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"We recognize our relationship to the past and to our future.., because they are the same thing."
---- Winona LaDuke (Anishinabe) |
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"We are truly unique things., because we are the descendants of our ancestors..
... and we are the ancestors of our descendants." ---- John Trudell (Shante Sioux) |
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"All of nature is in us, all of us is in nature.".....
"The Great Spirit made the flowers, the streams, the pines, the cedars - he takes care of them. He lets a breeze go through there, makes them breath it, waters them, makes them grow. He takes care of me, waters me, feeds me, makes me live with the plants and animals as one of them. This is how I wish to remain, an Indian, all the days of my life." ---- Pete Catches (Sioux) |
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"Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it."....
"Animals are part of us, part of the Great Spirit. The winged and four-legged are our cousins...There is power in the buffalo. There is power in the antelope. There was great power in a wolf, even in a coyote. To us, life, all life, is sacred." ---- John Fire Lame Deer (Sioux) |
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