Tag: wisdom
member name: RUTH L.
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December 19, 2007 02:10 AM EST --
And for a very deserving woman, yet mysteriously unnoticed. Very interesting and engaging articles, lovely poetry yet has nearly no attention at all. That is one thing, but this is another. . . . more
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December 17, 2007 06:44 PM EST --
From Father to Son
Sioux Holy Men
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 . . . more
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December 18, 2007 01:37 PM EST --
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 according to his deserts....
This . . . more
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January 07, 2008 02:59 PM EST --
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I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free, and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures, and . . . more
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December 24, 2007 08:24 PM EST --
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...I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply on himself.
All birds, even those . . . more
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December 10, 2007 05:55 PM EST --
There have been several inquiries into the image I posted portraying a print with the Native American 10 Commandments and expressing a desire into a clearer shot of the verbage on it much to my delight. . . . more
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December 23, 2007 10:38 PM EST --
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From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power. It is from Wakan- taka that the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal . . . more
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December 19, 2007 07:35 PM EST --
... I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes His blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look . . . more
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December 20, 2007 07:12 PM EST --
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 . . . more
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December 21, 2007 07:50 PM EST --
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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. . . . more
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December 28, 2007 12:01 PM EST --
By the year 1891, all of America's native tribes had been forced to "accept" government terms and were either confined to reservations or being assimilated into white culture.
How . . . more
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December 25, 2007 01:23 PM EST --
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December 27, 2007 01:51 PM EST --
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We are not white, we are more black. Yet if we cut ourselves, the blood will be red--and so with the whites it is the same, though their . . . more
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January 10, 2008 05:38 PM EST --
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Do you know or can you believe that sometimes the idea obtrudes...whether it has been well to have sought civilization with its bothersome concomitants and . . . more
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June 09, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
Native American Spirituality
Apache Legend
Rattlesnake
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This legend shows how survival sometimes depends on the ability to recognize danger. . . . more
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December 31, 2007 01:55 PM EST --
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January 02, 2008 08:47 PM EST --
Back after a brief respite.....
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The soil we see is not ordinary soil--it is the dust of the blood, the flesh, and bones of our ancestors. . . . You . . . more
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January 03, 2008 12:47 PM EST --
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When I was somewhat past ten years of age, my father took me with him to watch the horses out on the prairie. We watered the herd and about . . . more
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January 05, 2008 03:24 PM EST --
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....the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then . . . more
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January 09, 2008 05:12 PM EST --
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It was supposed that lost spirits were roving about everywhere in the invisible air, waiting for children to find them if they searched long and patiently enough.... . . . more
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