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| Topic: NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY & HEALING | |
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"We all form self-images and much of our behavior is pretty well determined by how we feel about ourselves."
---- Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Ph.D., PENOBSCOT |
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"Times change but principles do not. Times change but lands do not. Times change but our culture and our language remain the same. And that's what you have to keep intact. It's not what you wear - it's what's in your heart."
---- Oren Lyons, ONONDAGA |
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"Our circle is timeless, flowing, it is a new life emerging from death-life winning out over death."
---- Lame Deer, LAKOTA |
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"I received my education from my culture. My teachers were my grandmothers, and I am really thankful for that."
---- Mary One Spot, SARCEE |
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"That spiritual power I wear is much more beautiful and much greater. We call it wisdom, knowledge, power and gift, or love. There are these four parts to that spiritual power. So I wear those. When you wear that power it will beautify your mind and spirit. You become beautiful. Everything that Tunkashila creates is beautiful."
---- Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA |
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"It's the most precious thing...to know absolutely where you belong. There's a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you here. You see the same rock, tree, road, clouds, sun -- you develop a nice kind of intimacy with the world around you. To be intimate is to grow, to learn...[it] is absolutely fulfilling. Intimacy, that's my magic word for why I live here."
---- Tessie Maranjo, SANTA CLARA PUEBLO |
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"Life is like a path...and we all have to walk the path... As we walk... we'll find experiences like little scraps of paper in front of us along the way. We must pick up those pieces of scrap paper and put them in our pocket... Then, one day, we will have enough scraps of papers to put together and see what they say... Read the information and take it to heart."
---- Uncle Frank Davis (quoting his mother), PAWNEE |
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"We must have respect and understanding for women and all female life on this Earth which bears the sacred gift of life."
---- Traditional Circle of Elders. ONONDAGA |
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"Ultimately, nature will do the teaching."
---- Tom Porter, MOHAWK |
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"Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented should not be grieved for..."
---- Big Elk, OMAHA Chief |
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"The teachings are for all, not just for Indians... The white people never wanted to learn before. They thought we were savages. Now they have a different understanding, and they do want to learn. We are all children of God. The tradition is open to anyone who wants to learn."
---- Don Jose Matusuwa, HUICHOL |
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"No one likes to be criticized, but criticism can be something like the desert wind that, in whipping the tender stalks, forces them to strike their roots down deeper for security."
---- Polingaysi Qoyawayma, HOPI |
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"I walk in and out of many worlds."
---- Joy Harjo, CREEK/CHEROKEE |
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"How do you discover a land, when it was always here..?"
---- (Me) |
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"One of the first things Seneca children learned was that they might create their own world, their own environment, by visualizing actions and desires in prayer. The Senecas believed that everything that made life important came from within. Prayer assisted in developing a guideline toward discipline and self control."
---- Twylah Nitcsh, SENECA |
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"The very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch, for the soil is rich with the life of our kindred."
---- Chief Seattle, SUQUAMISH |
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"Everything's so simple, and we make everything so complicated. That's why we're confused."
---- Vickie Downey, TEWA/Tesuque Pueblo |
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..."No part, no person, no tribe, no species, no body of supernatural being is self-sufficient. Each possess a portion of the sum of all powers and properties of the cosmos. Each must share with all, or the entire system of nature dies.."... ..."Kwakiutl religion represents the concern of The People to occupy their proper place within the total system of life, and to act responsibly within it, so as to acquire and control the powers that sustain life..."... ---- ("Hamatsa" - 1975) "Man feels lost in the cosmos because he is no longer involved in nature. He has freed himself from superstition, but in the process, has lost his spiritual values, to a positively dangerous degree." ---- (Carl Jung - 1977) STATEMENT OF THE IROQUOIS INDIANS TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE "Today, the species of Man is facing a question of (it's) very survival.... The way of life known as Western Civilization is on a death path, on which their own culture has no viable answers. When faced of the reality of their own destructiveness, they can only go forward into areas of more efficient destructiveness." ---- (Mohawk Nation - 1978) ..."And with it all, I am always amazed at the wonder of nature, it's multiplicity, and especially at what it is saying to me about my own life, at the time of such encounters. I look for what it is trying to teach me. I know nature speaks to us, if we listen. Every animal has a story to tell. Every flower blossoms with reminders to be creative, ... and every tree whispers with it's rustling leaves, the secrets of life."... (Ted Andrews - "Animal-Speak" 1996) only got this far in reading but had to say - this moves me |
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..."No part, no person, no tribe, no species, no body of supernatural being is self-sufficient. Each possess a portion of the sum of all powers and properties of the cosmos. Each must share with all, or the entire system of nature dies.."... ..."Kwakiutl religion represents the concern of The People to occupy their proper place within the total system of life, and to act responsibly within it, so as to acquire and control the powers that sustain life..."... ---- ("Hamatsa" - 1975) "Man feels lost in the cosmos because he is no longer involved in nature. He has freed himself from superstition, but in the process, has lost his spiritual values, to a positively dangerous degree." ---- (Carl Jung - 1977) STATEMENT OF THE IROQUOIS INDIANS TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE "Today, the species of Man is facing a question of (it's) very survival.... The way of life known as Western Civilization is on a death path, on which their own culture has no viable answers. When faced of the reality of their own destructiveness, they can only go forward into areas of more efficient destructiveness." ---- (Mohawk Nation - 1978) ..."And with it all, I am always amazed at the wonder of nature, it's multiplicity, and especially at what it is saying to me about my own life, at the time of such encounters. I look for what it is trying to teach me. I know nature speaks to us, if we listen. Every animal has a story to tell. Every flower blossoms with reminders to be creative, ... and every tree whispers with it's rustling leaves, the secrets of life."... (Ted Andrews - "Animal-Speak" 1996) only got this far in reading but had to say - this moves me Glad you enjoyed it. Four.... If you liked it, you should keep reading.. LOTS more..! 
A little each day..., is easier.. 
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"Education is the new weapon of Indian people."
---- Eddie Box, SOUTHERN UTE |
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