“The 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.” ShouldMayDoneEarthSpiritGrowthPrayerCuttingGrowingTreeSadnessTeachingTearsDestroyedIndianGrassNativeNative AmericanStewardshipNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American Earth Author:Wooden Leg
“You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.” EarthMotherDiesAsksCuttingTearsAskingAsk MeSoilNativeTake MeKnivesNative AmericanBosomsNative American WisdomNative AmericaGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthNative WisdomPlowing Author:Wovoka
“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.” WellsChildrenEarthGivenParentPiecesTraditionTreatsOur ChildrenInnocenceIndianYour ChildrenNativeAncestorNative AmericanEldersIndigenousMother EarthAmerican IndianNative American WisdomGreat SpiritNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomNative WisdomNative LandAmerican SpiritNative American Indian InspirationalNative American SpiritualNative American DreamSpiritual IndianNative American ProverbsAncient IndiaAmerican EagleCherokee Indian Author:Crazy Horse
“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.” WholeEarthGenerationsTreeMankindColorSacredSevenCirclesIndianNativeNative AmericanNative AmericaTree Of LifeNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative CountrySick World Author:Crazy Horse
“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.” WorldWholeLightEarthSufferingNationsGenerationsTreeMankindColorBrokenPromiseBlessingRedSickSacredFilledLongingSevenCirclesSeparationSelfishnessIndianNativeNative AmericanBroken PromisesNative AmericaTree Of LifeNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative CountrySick World Author:Crazy Horse
“I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.” PeopleFeelsHeartReasonRealityEarthMotherChanceSorryReason WhyNativeNative AmericanSweetnessMother EarthGood Heart Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie