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“The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.”

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Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle
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“The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?”

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Author:Chief Dan George
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“Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."”

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Author:Luther Standing Bear
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“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

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Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle
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“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.”

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Author:Crazy Horse
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“The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”

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Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle
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“I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.”

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Book:Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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“[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.”

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Author:Crowfoot
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“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.”

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Book:Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

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Author:Chief Joseph
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“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”

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Author:Will Rogers
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“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.”

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Author:Chief Seattle
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“All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.”

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Book:Chief Seattle's Testimony
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“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

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Book:Answering Chief Seattle
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“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”

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Author:Tecumseh
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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”

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Author:Tecumseh
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“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”

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Author:Tecumseh
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“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.”

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Author:Tom Brown, Jr.
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“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.”

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Author:Sitting Bull
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“It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.”

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Book:Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches
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“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”

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Author:Charles Alexander Eastman
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“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”

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Author:Chief Seattle
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“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 talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.”

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Author:Chief Joseph
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“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”

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Author:Black Elk
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“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.”

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Author:Crowfoot
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“The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.”

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Book:American Indian Stories
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“Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.”

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Author:Black Elk
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“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”

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Author:Black Elk
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