| Quotes of Native Indians |
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| Every thing the Power of the World does is in a circle, 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, whirles. Birds make thier nest in a circle for theirs is the same religion as ours the sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle,The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons for a great circle in thier changing and always comes back where they were, The life of man is in a circle from where power moves.~~~ Black Elk, Oglala Sioux. |
| Wars are fought to see who owens the land, Who dares say he Owens it. Is he not Burried Beneath it ? ~ Cochise, Chiricahua Apache~ |
| We live, we die,like the grass and the stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages are dust now, but it will grow again like the trees. Old One, Wannapum.~ |
| A few more passing suns will see us no more,and our dust and bones will mingle with these same praries, I See in a vision the dying sparks of our council fires, the ashes cold and white. I no longer see the curling smoke rising from our lodge poles. I hear no longer the songs of the women as they preare the meal all is gone but the coyotes cry. Chief Plenty-crops,Crow |
| A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong. Someday I will embrace our brother tribes and draw them into a bundle and together we will win our country back from the whites. Tecumseh, Shawnee. |
| May serenity Circle on silent wings and catch the whisper of the wind. Cheewa James, Modoc.~ |
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| I say to you my cousins you must carry on you must press forward. you must remember the days of our Elders, LittleHawk Sky ~ |
| You must be who you are and be it the very best you know how. Sky |
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