Post by Moon Seeker on Feb 26, 2009 21:17:50 GMT -5
OUR LAND IS EVERYTHING TO US....
“Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.” - John Wooden Leg
UPON SUFFERING AND BEYOND....
“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.” - , Oglala Chief (This statement was taken from as he sat smoking the Sacred Pipe with Sitting Bull for the last time, four days before he was assassinated.
THE GREAT SPIRIT MADE ME....
“I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows. We are poor..but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die...we die defending our rights.” - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa
www.silverbelt.com/articles/2009/02/25/apache_moccasin/apache13.txt
“Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.” - John Wooden Leg
UPON SUFFERING AND BEYOND....
“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.” - , Oglala Chief (This statement was taken from as he sat smoking the Sacred Pipe with Sitting Bull for the last time, four days before he was assassinated.
THE GREAT SPIRIT MADE ME....
“I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows. We are poor..but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die...we die defending our rights.” - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa
www.silverbelt.com/articles/2009/02/25/apache_moccasin/apache13.txt