wisdom of the Indians
"Now do the archaeologists found the boundary of the Indian territory. The Indians had no limit! They were free, I would rather have the stars as the roof and the earth as a floor, I would rather live under a tree and weave a basket or do what I have always done. My only wish is that we were free and could go to the hills and mountains, there to spend a day. Just to bring the memories back to how it was when we lived there. "
Juanita Centeno, Chumash ...
"Do not think only of you yourself, O chiefs, not only to your own generation. Think of the many generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and the yet unborn, whose faces come from below the ground. "
Peacemaker founder of the Iroquois Federation, ca.1450 ..." While the eagle hunts and flies, lives that world. But flies and hunts no longer the eagle dies the world. " without indication of origin ...
" Now it's too late. The white man has the country that we love and we just want to take over the prairie until we die. "
Parra-wa-mon (Ten Bears) by Yamparika-Comanche in the peace negotiations from Medicine Lodge 1867th ..
"He did not know where he passed here, and not where he had been. And he did everything with other people's money. The other whites are has since followed his example. "
Indian proverbial wisdom about Columbus ...
" I can see that something else there in the bloody mud died and was buried by snow. A people dream died there. It was a beautiful dream ... "
Sioux medicine man Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk) to Wounded Knee ...
" Let us go in our mountains. Let us feed our flocks in the valleys and let's ride, where the smell of sage and the smell of the pine wood fire. Let us live in peace in the land of red mountains that rise from the sands of the desert, where the eagles fly. "
chief Ganada Mucho ...
" Do not stand at my grave and weep I'm not there, no I do not sleep. I am one of the thousand undulating waves of the lake, I am the diamonds glints on snow, when you awake in the silence of the morning, then I'm hidden from you, I'm a bird in flight, quiet as a breeze, I am the gentle light of the stars at night. Is not at my grave and weep, I am not there, no I do not sleep "
Lakota ...
" We were taught that the Great Spirit sees everything and hears everything and that he never forgets;. That after the Death to the spirit of each person according to his merits a new home is ... That I believe, as all of my people. "
Joseph (Himmaton Yalatkit) chief of the Nez Perce ...
"Blue drops the box down, blue drops the box, everywhere I look;. Dance the corn silk threads"
song of a Papago ...
"The crazy and sick world of the white man is much foolishness of your so-called civilization. How crazy run to you white people the money until you have so much that you do not live long enough can to spend it. Your plunders the forests, you slaughter the animals from their natural wasted fuel, as you would for no generation more that needs all the same. All the time you talk about a better world while you are building ever larger bombs to that world which you now have, to destroy. "
Tatanga Mani ...
" The red man is fighting for his people, his family, for food supplies and hunting areas in order to survive. The white man is fighting out of greed for more for himself and his hunger for money and gold. He always thinks of himself first. When the red men is to call the rich, which makes many gifts; When the white men, it is important to still more to accumulate and not just give away. The red man loves nature, because he is a part of it. The white man kills nature, although he is a part of it. Now that's crazy .. "
SUVATE ...... Dog Soldier ...
When you see the fire when you see the sky viewing: Do not forget, these are the spirits of the ancestors - our ancestors!
unknown ...
If you get up in the morning, then say thanks for the morning light, for your life and the power that you possess. Say thanks for your food and the joy of being alive. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies with you.
Tecumseh ...
begins No one, to be himself, until he has had his vision.
the Ojibway saying ...
Indian legends tell us that the eagle was all powerful and watching over everything. His ability and compassion made him the mediator, the Creator of the prayers of the people brought. The eagle symbolizes the fear of the unknown.
Adelphena Logan ...
bother anyone because of his religion - respect the views of others and ask of them that they also respect yours.
Tecumseh ...
A hawk circling in the ways of the wind - he alone knows it, he alone knows how they lead him to the center.
Simon J. Ortiz (Pueblo Indians) ...
We know what the white man will discover one day only. Our great spirit is the same God. Do not think that it possesses him, just as you think to own our land, for she never could.
The Great Spirit is the God of all people, the Red and the White man. The Great Spirit, this precious earth. The earth to hurt means to despise God.
Chief Seatlle 1854 ...
According to the Indians is the earth the Great Spirit, and man has given them only in captivity. The country that I use is not mine, it's me by the Great Spirit only for my benefit and for the generations of those who come after me borrow. The willingness of the Indian to share with his fellow man was a great thing.
were often hiding behind a mask or unrecognized for the receiver, so this had to think the gift come from the Great Spirit. He knew real social security in the form of a mutual assistance pact between himself and his Fellow human beings. If
married a man who attacked each with and helped to build him a home. He did not have a mortgage of $ 20,000 to be incorporated, where he paid the remainder of his life. When he went hunting or fishing and brought home more than he needed, he shared his loot with others. His
sense to leave all the time, gave him mental and physical health. And because he acted so and lived, gave him the Great Spirit for many days. He was old and lived a good life. May it endure so you, my friends.
Sun Bear ... a Chippewa Indian from Minnesota ...
"The entire Southwest was a single house, built from the dawn. It was made of pollen and rain. The country was old and eternal. Many colors were on the hills and in the plane, and behind the mountains was a dark wilderness. The country was ordered and strong, and all over the area it was beautiful. "
Indians of the Southwest ...
song" Who does not respect the earth, they destroyed, who does not respect all life as one's own is a murderer. The man thinks sometimes he the owner, was elevated to the ruler. This is a mistake. He is only a part of the whole. His role is that of a guardian, an administrator, not an exploiter. Man has responsibility, not power. We think, in deciding on the seventh of the coming generations. It is our duty to ensure to ensure that people find us by the generations yet unborn, a world that is no worse than ours -. and hopefully better, "Oren Lyons
... chief of the Onondaga Nation ...
If we hunt , it is not our arrow that killed the elk, how much might be our arch;. It is nature itself, which kills him
Big Thunder (late 19th century) Wabanaki Algonquin ... ...
Of all animals the horse is the best friend of the Indian, for without it he could not take any long trips. The horse is the most precious possession of an Indian. If an Indian intends something important, then he promises his horse to paint it with earth tones when it supported, so that all can see how the horse helped him.
Brave Buffalo (late 19th century) Teton Sioux medicine man ... ...
"Do not kill the trees does not make the water of our rivers murky. Will not tear the bowels of our earth. Otherwise, the rivers and trees will cry."
Keokuk ... chief of the Sauk ...
claim you, our earth is theirs. You see brothers, the spring is here. The sun embraces the earth. Soon we will see the children that love. Each seed, each animal is awake. The same power has given birth to us. Therefore, we also give our fellow men and our friends the animals, the same rights as us to live on this earth. But listen brothers. Now we are dealing with a different type. They were few and weak, but now there are many and they are strong and arrogant. It is hard to believe they want to plow the earth. Greed is their disease. They have made many laws and break the rich the poor, but they may not. They take the money of the poor and weak to support the rich and strong with it. They say, our mother the earth belonged to them and they are fencing off their neighbors, from our mother. They pollute our mother to their buildings and their waste. They force our mother, the wrong time to give birth. And if they bear no more fruit, they give their Medicine to which they give birth to new's will. What they do is not sacred. They are like a river at the time of the flood. In the spring, it breaks its banks and destroys everything in its path
Sitting Bull .. Lakota ...
"No man can have his mother, no one can make the earth on his property."
Ojibwa ...
"I am the land. My eyes are the sky. My limbs are the trees. I am the rock, the water depth. I'm not here to dominate nature or to use them. I am a natural.
Hopi Indians ...
"I want to shoot for my little brother a little bird. I want for my little sister a small fish succumbed. "
Haida Indians ...
" If you can not harden your heart when you show your fellow small kindnesses, they will answer you with affection. They will give you kind thoughts. The more people you help, the more of these good ideas will be on you. The fact that people are well disposed towards you is more valuable than wealth. "
Henry Old Coyote ...
" The smoke from our sacred pipe is the breath of the Great Spirit. When we sit together and smoke the pipe, we form a circle that has no end and encloses all living things on Earth. "
Lame Deer (Tahca Ushte) Lakota ... ...
" Do you know that the Trees ? Talk Yes, they talk. They talk and they talk to you when you listen. But the white people do not listen. They have never found it worth while to listen to Indians, and I fear they will not listen even to the other voices in nature. I myself have learned a lot from the trees. Sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit go "
Tatanga Mani ... ... Stoney
" May all my mistakes and take their seats as possible make little noise here "
Eskimo saying ...
" The day is ending. reconsider what he has brought you to worry. A few davon behalte, die anderen wirf weg!"
Calvin O. John
"Grosser Geist, bewahre mich davor, über einen Menschen zu urteilen, ehe ich nicht eine Meile in seinen Mokassins gegangen bin."
unbekannter Apachenkrieger...
"Ich sage immer, was ich in meinem Herzen für wahr halte. Darum geht es. Wenn alle das verstehen könnten, würden sie wissen, wie ich mich fühle. Wenn andere Menschen sich ihre Kultur bewahren und weiter danach leben würden, wüssten sie um diese Dinge.
Manchmal sagen die Leute, ich würde wieder Indianer spielen. Oh, das ist traurig. Ich glaube nicht, dass ich Indianer spielen oder mich wie eine Indianerin aufführen muss. Ich bin eine. Ich bin Sun I am who I am. And I'm proud. "
Mary Leitka ... ... Haut
" The men are in the inner circle, and the women sit behind them. The women know as much as men, and they often ask for advice, you are always interested in what their husbands do, and think about it. "
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins Paiute ... ...
" You could say that the religion of non-Indians came from the outside, try as God, who is somewhere up there in heaven with his kingdom, and the people down here, screwing their way to heaven.
are in the view of the Indians on the other hand you God. He is in you, part of you. And this is our beginning, our creation, as we were created for the first time. We carry within us. "
Vickie Downey Tewa ... ...
" I sit like a bird on the branch. I look around me and not know where. Let me therefore come down to the ground. "
Lenape Indians ...
" There are more than one road that leads to life after life, there are more than one way to love, there are more than one way, the to find other half of his other self in a human, it is more than one way to combat the enemy. "
" Those who do not love self can, can not love anybody. Who is ashamed of his body, ashamed of all living things. Whoever finds his body dirty, is lost. Those who do not respect the gifts received before birth can can never respect anything right. "
A Nootka
" How happy I am?
For us this is the most important question in life. For Indians, the success depends not on how much he earned or what social position he occupies, but only on how happy he is. "
Beryl Blue Spruce ... ... Pueblo.Indianer
" God was me that I should tell my people, whether they be good, love each other and not steal or lie. He gave me this dance to get him to pass on my people.
Wowoka ... ... Paiute Ghost Dance Prophet ...
"How long we on earth? Not forever, just a small margin. Jade breaks down, gold will crush, bend quetzal feathers. Nothing lasts on earth, all living just a touch long. Our time is borrowed, fast we must leave behind. "
Aztecs ..." You are what your mother. You see the world and all that is therein, through the eyes of your mother. What you will learn later from the fathers, is something else. The chain of culture is the chain of women, linking the past with the future. "
Shirley Hill Witt Mohawk ... ...
" A nation is not conquered so long as the hearts of its women are strong. But then it's all over, no matter how brave warriors and how strong their weapons may be, "
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