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  • If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

  • Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

    Death   Song   Hero  
    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

    Life   Change   Death  
  • We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

  • We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

  • 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.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where 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 at present, at least, I am a Pagan.

  • Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

    Quoted in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
  • So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

    Chief Seattle, “This we know”
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.

  • The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

    Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press
  • As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

  • If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

  • Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  • Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  • Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

    "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, (Ch. 17), 1961.
  • Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

  • We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.

  • 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.

  • It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  • The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

    Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press
  • Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
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