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O'siyo
Oginalii Tsilugi
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Friends Welcome!
Wakan
Tankan Nici Un (May the
Great Spirit walk with you) (Cherokee)
Yigaquu
osaniyu adanvto adadoligi nigohilvi nasquv
utloyasdi nihi May the
Great Spirit's Blessings Always Be With You
(Cherokee)
Afrika Ho!
Mitakuye Oyasin "We Are
All Related" (Cherokee)
Ea Nigada
Qusdi Idadadvhn "All My
Relations In Creation" Trouble no
one about their religion; respect
others in their view and demand that they respect
yours. ~Chief
Tecumseh~ "When the
Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear,
when that happens, The Warriors
of the Rainbow will come to save them. ~Chief
Seattle ~ Brother,
you say there is but one way to worship
and serve the Great
Spirit.
If
there is but one religion, why do you
white people differ so much about
it?
Why not all agreed, as you can all read
the Book? ~Sogoyewapha,
"Red Jacket" - Senaca~ "Lose your
temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose
yourself." ~Hopi
~ "We
who are clay blended by the Master Potter,
come from the kiln of Creation in many hues.
How can people say one skin is colored,
when each has its own coloration? What should
it matter that one bowl is dark and the
other pale, if each is of good design and serves
its purpose well." ~Polingaysi
Qoyawayma, Hopi ~ "There
is no such thing as 'part-Cherokee.'
Either you're Cherokee or you're not.
It
isn't the quantity of Cherokee blood in
your veins that is important, but the
quality of it
. . . your pride in it. I have seen
full-bloods who have virtually no idea of
the great legacy
entrusted to their care. Yet, I have seen
people with as little as 1/500th blood
quantum
who inspire the spirits of their ancestors
because they make being Cherokee a
proud
part of a their everyday life."
~Jim
Pell: Principal Chief of the North Alabama
Cherokee Tribe ~ This
quote is taken off the Memorial Wall
dedicated to the Women and Men who lost
their lives to the Salem Witch hunt mania
of the 17th century. I
know it is not a Native American oriented
quote, but in the air of potential "witch
hunts" going on today, spurred on by some
christian fundamentalists trying
to ban non-christian worshipping on
military bases and elsewhere, I thought
it was appropriate. If they get their way,
not only will Pagans and Wiccans
suffer, but Native Americans following
their own paths, and Muslims, and Jews,
etc., until no one is left... About
the fragile feelings hiding in my soul.
-Glenn
Lazore (Mohawk) The
American Indian is of the soil, whether it
be the region of forests, plains, pueblos,
or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for
the hand that fashioned the continent also
fashioned the man for his surroundings. He
once grew as naturally as the wild
sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo
belonged.... Out
of the Indian approach to life there came
a great freedom, an intense and absorbing
respect for life, enriching faith in a
Supreme Power, and principles of truth,
honesty, generosity, equity, and
brotherhood as a guide to mundane
relations. You
have noticed that everything an Indian
does is in a circle, and that is because
the Power of the World always works in
circles, and everything tries to be
round..... The Sky is round, and I have
heard that the earth is round like a ball,
and so are all the stars. The wind, in its
greatest power, whirls. Birds make their
nest in circles, for theirs is the same
religion as ours.... Even
the seasons form a great circle in their
changing, and always come back again to
where they were. The life of a man is a
circle from childhood to childhood, and so
it is in everything where power moves.
-Black
Elk (Oglala) 1863-1950 The
Great Spirit is in all things, he is in
the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is
our Father, but the Earth is our Mother.
She nourishes us, that which we put into
the ground she returns to us....
-Big
Thunder(Bedagi)(Wabanaki
Algonquin) From
Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all
power. It is from Wakan-Tanka that the
holy man has wisdom and the power to heal
and make holy charms. Man knows that all
healing plants are given by Wakan-Tanka,
therefore they are holy. So too is the
buffalo holy, because it is the gift of
Wakan-Tanka. -Flat-Iron
(Maza Blaska) Oglala Sioux
Chief In
the beginning of all things, wisdom and
knowledge were with the animals, for
Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak
directly to man. He sent certain animals
to tell men that he showed himself through
the beast, and that from them, and from
the stars and the sun and moon should man
learn.. all things tell of Tirawa.
All
things in the world are two. In our minds
we are two, good and evil. With our eyes
we see two things, things that are fair
and things that are ugly.... We have the
right hand that strikes and makes for
evil, and we have the left hand full of
kindness, near the heart. One foot may
lead us to an evil way, the other foot may
lead us to a good. So are all things two,
all two. -Eagle
Chief (Letakos-Lesa) Pawnee ......
everything on the earth has a purpose,
every disease an herb to cure it, and
every person a mission. This is the Indian
theory of existence. -Mourning
Dove (Salish) 1888-1936 "We
know our lands have now become more
valuable. The white people think we do not
know their value; but we know that the
land is everlasting, and the few goods we
receive for it are soon worn out and
gone." -Canassatego ...
I have seen that in any great undertaking
it is not enough for a man to depend
simply upon himself. -Lone
Man (Isna-la-wica)(Teton Sioux) "Where
today are the Pequot? Where are the
Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket,
and many other once powerful tribes of our
people? They have vanished before the
avarice and the oppression of the White
Man, as snow before a summer sun.
"Will
we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn
without a struggle, give up our homes, our
country bequeathed to us by the Great
Spirit, the graves of our dead and
everything that is dear and sacred to us?
I know you will cry with me, 'Never!
Never!'" -Tecumseh
(Shawnee) "The
white people, who are trying to make us
over into their image, they want us to be
what they call "assimilated," bringing the
Indians into the mainstream and destroying
our own way of life and our own cultural
patterns. They believe we should be
contented like those whose concept of
happiness is materialistic and greedy,
which is very different from our way.
We
want freedom from the white man rather
than to be integrated. We don't want any
part of the establishment, we want to be
free to raise our children in our
religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt
and fish and live in peace. We don't want
power, we don't want to be congressmen, or
bankers....we want to be ourselves. We
want to have our heritage, because we are
the owners of this land and because we
belong here. The
white man says, there is freedom and
justice for all. We have had "freedom and
justice," and that is why we have been
almost exterminated. We shall not forget
this." -From
the 1927 Grand Council of American
Indians "The
ground on which we stand is sacred ground.
It is the blood of our ancestors."
Chief
Plenty Coups (Crow) "How
smooth must be the language of the whites,
when they can make right look like wrong,
and wrong like right." -Black
Hawk (Sauk) "There
are many things to be shared with the Four
Colors of humanity in our common destiny
as one with our Mother the Earth. It is
this sharing that must be considered with
great care by the Elders and the medicine
people who carry the Sacred Trusts, so
that no harm may come to people through
ignorance and misuse of these powerful
forces." -Resolution
of the Fifth Annual Meetings of the
Traditional Elders Circle, 1980 "My
father, you have made promises to me and
to my children. If the promises had been
made by a person of no standing, I should
not be surprised to see his promises fail.
But you, who are so great in riches and
power; I am astonished that I do not see
your promises fulfilled! "I
would have been better pleased if you had
never made such promises than that you
should have made them and not performed
them. . ." -Shinguaconse
("Little Pine") "When
we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.
When we dig roots, we make little holes.
When we build houses, we make little
holes. When we burn grass for
grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We
shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't
chop down the trees. We only use dead
wood. But the white people plow up the
ground, pull down the trees, kill
everything. ... the White people pay no
attention. ...How can the spirit of the
earth like the White man? ... everywhere
the White man has touched it, it is sore."
-Wintu
Woman, 19th Century "Traditional
people of Indian nations have interpreted
the two roads that face the light-skinned
race as the road to technology and the
road to spirituality. We feel that the
road to technology.... has led modern
society to a damaged and seared earth.
Could it be that the road to technology
represents a rush to destruction, and that
the road to spirituality represents the
slower path that the traditional native
people have traveled and are now seeking
again? The earth is not scorched on this
trail. The grass is still growing there."
-William
Commanda, Mamiwinini, Canada,
1991 The
Sacred Tree Among
the Indians there have been no written
laws. Customs handed down from generation
to generation have been the only laws to
guide them. Every one might act different
from what was considered right did he
choose to do so, but such acts would bring
upon him the censure of the Nation....
This fear of the Nation's censure acted as
a mighty band, binding all in one social,
honorable compact. -George
Copway (Kah-ge-ga-bowh)(Ojibwa Chief
1818-1863) The
promise Creator gives us Comes
with every new day, The
gift of breath, the gift of
life, Opportunities
in a vast array. How
do we count our blessings, Through
the choices life can bring? Is
it through joyful lessons? Or
the fears to which we cling? Are
we learning to show gratitude, For
the victories over human pain? By
honoring the feeling choices, We
grasp the will we've regained. Can
we change our focus, With
no need to defend? Acknowledging
joy and sorrow, Without
judging foe or friend? Tomorrow
promises the fullness Of
every human way to know: How
we master each challenge Determines
our balance - reflecting
how we grow. The
Promise of Tomorrow Jamie
Sams "Earth
Medicine" Then
I was standing on the highest mountain of
them all, and round about beneath me was
the whole hoop of the world. And while I
stood there I saw more than I can tell and
I understood more than I saw; for I was
seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of
all things in the spirit, and the shape of
all shapes as they must live together like
one being. And
I say the sacred hoop of my people was one
of the many hoops that made one circle,
wide as daylight and as starlight, and in
the center grew one mighty flowering tree
to shelter all the children of one mother
and one father. And I saw that it was
holy... But
anywhere is the center of the world.
Holy
Man of the Oglala Sioux The
traditions of our people are handed down
from father to son. The Chief is
considered to be the most learned, and the
leader of the tribe. The Doctor, however,
is thought to have more inspiration. He is
supposed to be in communion with
spirits... He cures the sick by the laying
of hands, and payers and incantations and
heavenly songs. He infuses new life into
the patient, and performs most wonderful
feats of skill in his practice.... He
clothes himself in the skins of young
innocent animals, such as the fawn, and
decorated himself with the plumage of
harmless birds, such as the dove and
hummingbird ... -Sarah
Winnemucca (Paiute)1844-1891 "If
today I had a young mind to direct, to
start on the journey of life, and I was
faced with the duty of choosing between
the natural way of my forefathers and that
of the... present way of civilization, I
would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set
that child's feet in the path of my
forefathers. I would raise him to be an
Indian!" "We
learned to be patient observers like the
owl. We learned cleverness from the crow,
and courage from the jay, who will attack
an owl ten times its size to drive it off
its territory. But above all of them
ranked the chickadee because of its
indomitable spirit." -Tom
Brown, Jr., The Tracker It
doesn't interest me what you do for a
living. I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting in
your heart's longing. It
doesn't interest me how old you are. I
want to know if you will risk looking like
a fool for love, for your dreams, for the
adventure of being alive. It
doesn't interest me what planets are
squaring your moon. I want to know if you
have touched the center of your own
sorrow, if you have been opened by life's
betrayals or have become shriveled and
closed from fear of further pain.
I
want to know if you can sit in pain, mine
or your own, without moving to hide it or
fade it or fix it. I
want to know if you can be with joy, mine
or your own,if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tip of
your fingers and toes without cautioning
us to be careful, be realistic, or to
remember the limitations of being human.
It
doesn't interest me if the story you're
telling me is true. I want to know if you
can disappoint another to be true to
yourself; if you can bear the accusation
of betrayal and not betray your own soul.
I
want to know if you can be faithful and
therefore be trustworthy. I
want to know if you can see beauty even
when it is not pretty every day, and if
you can source your life from God's
presence. I
want to know if you can live with failure,
yours and mine, and still stand on the
edge of a lake and shout to the silver of
the full moon, "Yes!" It
doesn't interest me to know where you live
or how much money you have. I
want to know if you can get up after the
night of grief and despair, weary and
bruised to the bone, and do what needs to
be done for the children. It
doesn't interest me who you are, how you
came to be here. I
want to know if you will stand in the
center of the fire with me and not shrink
back. It
doesn't interest me where or what or with
whom you have studied. I
want to know what sustains you from the
inside when all else falls away.
I
want to know if you can be alone with
yourself, and if you truly like the
company you keep in the empty moments.
By
Oriah Mountain Dreamer (A
Native American Elder)
Carnelian-
is a translucent to clear waxy form of
quartz, it is flesh colored, or red,
orange, or reddish-brown. It is the stone
of integrity & a symbol of the
strength & beauty of the earth.
Carnelian is attributed with the ability
to stimulate & to stir into action. It
softens anger & disperses strife. It
promotes contentment, thus it is a good
stone to wear. Carnelian helps a person to
develop self-control. It is a stone of
blood ties & family unity since it's
primary attribute is to strengthen.
Ancient people accredited carnelian with
currative powers & it was used in
general healing. Resource:
Earth Medicine by Kenneth Meadows
The
Stone People (Rocks) are the Eldest living
beings on Mother Earth, therefore are
deserving of the utmost respect. I have
been taught that they serve the role of
record-keepers. It was also explained to
me that Great Mystery breathed it's breath
into each & every stone thus granting
them all unique & valuable gifts &
lessons to bestow upon earth's other
creatures. When
you were born you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life in
such a manner that when you die, the world cried
and you rejoice.
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