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I WokeTears In My Eyes
And One Rolling Down My Cheek
And Realized That I Must Have Been Dreaming
Of You Again. Certain things catch your eye, But pursue only those that capture your heart.The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. " May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
The Earth is the Mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the river to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleasesThe old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities. Cheyenne. In the end all things surrender
to feeling.The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.It takes a second to say I love you, but a lifetime to show it.
Our first teacher is our own heart.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth. A person should not be judged by how much he is worth in money but what he is worth in the heart! Clear your heart of Greed,Anger,Hate,Revenge,fill it with love & peace and respect for all.This will cause your eyes to shine like stars at night. All your material possessions in the end will be as worthless as nailing jello to a tree.To understand everything is to forgive everything.Love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty water soil & sun to the soul. The heart sees what is invisible to the eye which is the passage to the soul!"Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. "We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank."
Chief Maquinna, Nootka Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
"We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have--to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. "This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. "One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.It does not require many words to speak the truth."Respect means listening until everyone has been heard and understood, only then is there a possibility of "Balance and Harmony" the goal of Indian Spirituality."
Dave Chief, Grandfather of Red DogThough my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night. No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
Tecumseh - Shawnee
Two Wolves'
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, 'My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' in

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