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Cherokee Prayer Blessing

May the Warm Winds of Heaven

Blow softly upon your house.

May the Great Spirit

Bless all who enter there.

May your Mocassins

Make happy tracks

 in many snows, and may the 

RainbowAlways touch your shoulder. 

 

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

~ Blackfoot ~

"Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity."

-~ Sitting Bull ~

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say."

~ Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache Chief. ~

"Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. Those laws were good. They told us to treat all men as they treated us, that we should never be the first to break a bargain, that it was a disgrace to tell a lie, that we should only speak the truth...

~ Chief Joseph (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt) ~

It can be 100 degrees in the shade one afternoon and suddenly there comes a storm with hailstones as big as golf balls, the prairie is all white and your teeth chatter. That's good-a reminder that you are just a small particle of nature, not so powerful as you think.-Lame Deer

~ LAKOTA ~

"Love is something you and I must have. we must have it because our spirit feeds upon it, we must have it because, without it we become weak and faint. without love our self-esteem weakens. without it our courage fails. without love, we can no longer look out confidently at the world. with love, we are creative. with love, we march tirelessly. with love, and with love alone, we are able to sacrifice for others."

~ Chief Dan George ~

Geswanouth Slahoot, Tse-lai-Watt Nation (1899-1981)

"There is no other time like now. We should be thankful, for creation did not make weak spirits to live during this time... "Humanity must shift from living "on" the earth, to living with her."

~ Tiokasin Ghosthorse ~

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.”

~ Chief Red Cloud ~

Oglala Lakota  (1822 – December 10, 1909)

"If there is a shadow of a doubt someplace, that will cause a weakness.""

~ Wallace Black Elk, ~ LAKOTA

'Walk tall as the trees, Live strong as the mountains, be gentle as the spring wind, keep warmth from the summer sun in your heart & the Great Spirit will always be with you'.

~Native American~

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. 

~ Chief Joseph ~

.Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.  

~Sitting Bull~ 

 Lakota Sioux

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. She nourishes us; that which we put into the ground she returns to us

~ Big Thunder ~

(Bedagi) Wabanaki Algonquin

When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice. 

~White Elk~

Certain things catch your eye,
But pursue only those
that capture your heart.
Old indian saying

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 Sioux (Tatanka Iyotake)

“You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” 

Old Indian Proverb

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.” 

Old Indian Proverb

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect. 
~ Chief Seattle, 1854 ~

"Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself." 

"Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way." 

“They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.” 

“Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.” 

“Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.” 

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.” 

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