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Words of Wisdom cont....

"Creator gave you  two ears....
and one mouth....
So you can listen,
twice as much,
as you speak.

                                       Two Hawks' Grandfather
                                                                         Lakota


"One cannot sell the earth
upon which the people walk."

                            Tacunka Witco (Crazy Horse)
                                                          Oglala Lakota


"You have driven me from the east
to this place, and I have been here
two thousand years or more....
My friends, if you took me away
from this land it would be very hard
for me.  I wish to die in this land.
I wish to be an old man here....
I have not wished to give even a part
of it to the Great Father.
Though he were to give me a million dollars,
I would NOT give him this land...."

                                                    Standing Bear
                                                        Ponca Chief


"We do not want schools....
they will teach us to have churches.
We do not want churches....
they will teach us to quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.
We may quarrel with men sometimes
about things on this earth,
but we never quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that."

                     Heinmot Tooyalaket (Chief Joseph)
                                                     Nez Perce Leader


"The world of my childhood
was filled with wonder and magic.
Enchantment was the order of the day.
Mechanistic science has no place
for enchantment.  If it can't be
measured, it doesn't exist.
The problem is, the important things
cannot be measured...."

                         Anne Wilson Schaef (Cherokee)
         Author- 'Native Wisdom for White Minds'

Oh Great Spirit, who made all races,
look kindly upon the whole human
family and take away the arrogance
and hatred which separates us
from our brothers....

                                                   Cherokee Prayer

When pride comes, then comes shame;
But with the humble, is wisdom.

                                                              Proverbs 11:2

Do a favor, and don't ask for
or expect one, in return.

                                     Richard Carlson Ph. D.
            Author- "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
                                        and it's all small stuff"


A good heart and a good mind-  these are
what you need to be a chief.

                                                  -Louis Farmer
                                              Onondaga Elder


The wisest man sees the least, says the least,
but prays the most.

                                               -Irish Proverb


"We" overrides "Me"....

                                         -Hawaiian Proverb


When a man does a piece of work which is admired
by all we say that it is wonderful; but when we see the
changes of day and night, the sun, the moon, and the
stars in the sky, and  the changing seasons upon the
earch, with their ripening fruits, anyone must realize
that it is the work of someone more powerful than man.

                                                             Chased By Bears
                                                        Santee Lakota


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