"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the 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. .

Cheif Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian tribe

 Feb 1970- Dec 1973
Picture took  Nov 1970, Burnsville NC


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From a very good friend, thank you "C"

Amazing Grace, Cherokee Style

This is a great story from a friend of mine here. In fact I thought it was so good that I had to put it here, you see, this story reminds me of many Americans today. Has long has the Government hasn't infringed on them, they do not care what happens to the Americans around them.

Thank you Sammantha!!

Mouse Story

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

 "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

 Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning.

 "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

 The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you
but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it."

 The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

 The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. 
Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse  turned to the cow and said, "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"

 The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse.  I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off my nose."

 So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer's mousetrap-- alone. 

 That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

 The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.  In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake
whose tail the trap had caught.

 The snake bit the farmer's wife.  The farmer rushed her to the hospital and she returned home with a fever.
Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

 But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.
To feed them, the farmer  butchered the pig.

 The farmer's wife did not get well; she died. So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

 The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

 So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn't concern you, remember -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

 We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.