"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more."
--Chief Joseph, NEZ PERCE
We are as sick as our secrets. Our ego takes over control of our lives and when that happens our minds get very sick. Then we hurt people and our minds will always justify our actions. Our minds will give us rationalization and excuses that we are justified in doing what we are doing.
Silence is the cornerstone of character." --Charles Alexander Eastman, OHIYESA SANTEE SIOUX Be still and know. Anyone can verbally attack another. Anyone can...
"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more." --Chief Joseph, NEZ PERCE We are as sick as our secrets. Our ego takes over...
"You are going to learn the most important lesson - that God is the most powerful thing there is." --Mathew King, LAKOTA The Medicine Wheel teaches that there...
"It was good for the skin to touch the earth, and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth... The soil was ...
"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 It is only by knowing...
"Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new, sweet earth, and the great silence alone." --Charles Alexander Eastman, OHIYESA SANTEE SIOUX Each morning a new...
"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...
"Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit." --Sitting Bull, TETON SIOUX Our bodies are both physical and spiritual. At our very center we are...
"Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit." --Sitting Bull, TETON SIOUX Our bodies are both physical and spiritual. At our very center we are...
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and You are older than all need, older than all ...
"Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good." --Chief Joseph, NEZ PERCE The Creator gives us many laws to...
We are nothing compared to His power, and we feel and know it." --Black Hawk, SAUK Inside of every man and woman is a place of knowing. In this place is the...
"Grandfather says...you must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life." --Wovoka,...
"My friends, how desperately do we need to be loved and to love." --Chief Dan George, SKOKOMISH Oh my great Creator: Help me this day to love myself. I can't...
"We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that He never forgets, that hereafter He will give every man a spirit-home...
"When you begin a great work you can't expect to finish it all at once; therefore, you and your brothers press on and let nothing discourage you until you...
"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts." --Cochise "Like Ironweed" CHIRICAHUA APACHE Come into my heart this morning....
In this universe, all activities, events, and entities are related. Indians believe that everything in the universe has value and instructs us in some aspect...
"These are our times and our responsibilities. Every human being has a sacred duty to protect the welfare of our Mother Earth, from whom all life comes. In...
"...the greatest strength is in gentleness." --Leon Shenandoah, ONONDAGA Our Elders have taught us many lessons about becoming a Warrior and how to think and...
"Life is like a path...and we all have to walk the path... As we walk... we'll find experiences like little scraps of paper in front of us along the way. We...
"People need to wake up. They can't hear God's voice if they're asleep." --Vernon Cooper, LUMBEE Black Elk, a Sioux, talks about the hoop of many hoops. He...
"Let us put our minds together as one." --Irving Powless, Sr., ONONDAGA If we sat in a circle and put an object in the center of the circle and we all...
"A good heart and a good mind - those are what you need to be a chief." --Louis Farmer, ONONDAGA The combination of heart and mind is very powerful. The...
"When we want to talk to Him we burn tobacco and it takes our prayers all the way up to the Sky World." --Louis Farmer, ONONDAGA Our herbs and our medicines...
"You want to know who's a real medicine man? He's the one who doesn't say 'I'm a medicine man.' He doesn't ask you to come to him. You've got to go and ask...
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 children's...
"Everyone has to find the right path. You can't see it so it's hard to find. No one can show you. Each person has to find the path by himself." --Charlie...
"When you get older and you are ready, your ancestors will show up to guide you." --Joe Coyhis, STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE Many of us, when we are young, spend a...
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