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Ask An Indian

Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here
to dispose of us as you see fit.
If I thought you were sent by the Creator,
I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me.
Do not misunderstand me, but understand fully
with reference to my affection for the land.
I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose.
The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who has created it.
I claim a right to live on my land
and accord you the privilege to return to yours.
Brother, we have listened to your talk coming from the father in Washington,
and my people have called upon me to reply to you.
And in the winds which pass through these aged pines
we hear the moaning of their departed ghosts.
And if the voices of our people could have been heard,
that act would never have been done.
But alas, though they stood around,
they could neither be seen nor heard.
Their tears fell like drops of rain.
I hear my voice in the depths of the forest,
but no answering voice comes back to me.
All is silent around me.
My words must therfore be few. I can say no more.
He is silent, for he has nothing to answer when the sun goes down.
Nimiputimt Chief Joseph, Nez Perce


Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Hehaka Sapa Nicolas Black Elk, Oglala Lakota

Children were encouraged to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success.
Hum ishu ma Mourning Dove, Salish

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache



A MISSIONARY once undertook to instruct a group of Indians in the truths of his holy religion. He told them of the creation of the earth in six days, and of the fall of our first parents by eating an apple.

The courteous savages listened attentively, and after thanking him, one related in his turn a very ancient tradition concerning the origin of the maize. But the missionary plainly showed his disgust and disbelief, indignantly saying: -- "What I delivered to you were sacred truths, but this that you tell me is mere fable and falsehood!"

"My brother," gravely replied the offended Indian, "it seems that you have not been well grounded in the rules of civility. You saw that we, who practice these rules, believed your stories; why, then, do you refuse to credit ours?"

"The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only. Geronimo


Brother, our seats were once large, and yours were very small; you have now become a great people, and we have scarcely a place left to spread our blankets; you have got our country, but are not satisfied; you want to force your religion upon us.

Brother, continue to listen. You say you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind, and if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right, and we are lost; how do we know this to be true? We understand that your religion is written in a book; if it was intended for us as well as you, why has not the Great Spirit given it to us, and not only to us, but why did he not give to our forefathers the knowledge of that book, with the means of understanding it rightly? We only know what you tell us about it. How shall we know when to believe, being so often deceived by the white people?

Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit; if there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agree, as you can all read the book?

Brother, we do not understand these things. We are told that your religion was given to your forefathers, and has been handed down from father to son. We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. We worship that way. It teacheth us to be thankful for all the favors we receive; to love each other, and to be united. We never quarrel about religion.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all; but he has made a great difference between his white and red children; he has given us a different complexion, and different customs; to you he has given the arts; to these he has not opened our eyes; we know these things to be true. Since he has made so great a difference between us in other things, why may we not conclude that he has given us a different religion according to our understanding. The Great Spirit does right; he knows what is best for his children; we are satisfied.

Brother, we do not wish to destroy your religion, or take it from you; we only want to enjoy our own.
Sagoyewatha Red Jacket, Seneca


"About 9 or 10 other guards handcuffed me behind my back real hard and put leg shackles on me and made me go in a room with all of them. Then they shoved a table in front of the door so nobody could get out. Then . . . the Asst. Supt. said that I am going to get a hair cut one way or the other and that they didn't care if I was Geronimo . . . . [T]he guards all took my leg shackles and handcuffs real hard and held me down and this barber . . . came over and cut my hair into a raggedy mess. That is when they all started laughing and [the major] said that now I could get some white religion. "




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            AND YOU WILL KNOW EACH OTHER. IF YOU DO NOT TALK TO
            THEM YOU WILL NOT KNOW THEM, AND WHAT YOU DO NOT
            KNOW YOU WILL FEAR. WHAT ONE FEARS ONE DESTROYS.

            GESWANOUTH SLAHOOT   CHIEF DAN GEORGE 1899 - 1981
                                     TSLEIL-WAUTUTH NATION



"NEVER BELIEVE THAT ANIMALS SUFFER LESS THAN HUMANS....PAIN IS THE SAME FOR THEM THAT IT IS FOR US....EVEN WORSE, BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT HELP THEMSELVES.
                                               DR. LOUIS J. CAMUTI 1893 - 1981

"Every sixty seconds, thirty acres of rain forest are destroyed in order to raise beef for fast food restaurants that sell it to people, giving them strokes and heart attacks, which raise medical costs and insurance rates, providing insurance companies with more money to invest in large corporations that branch out further into the Third World so they can destroy more rain forests."

- George Carlin, comedian.



"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different."                Hippocrates (?460BC - ?377BC)


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"Our task must be to free ourselves....widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955







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THE MEASURE OF A MAN IS NOT WHERE HE STANDS IN MOMENTS OF COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE, BUT WHERE HE STANDS AT TIMES OF CHALLENGE AND CONTROVERSY.    MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

A VERY GREAT VISION IS NEEDED AND THE MAN WHO HAS IT MUST FOLLOW IT AS THE EAGLE SEEKS THE DEEPEST BLUE OF THE SKY.    TASUNKE WITKO CRAZY HORSE



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"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
St. Francis of Assisi 1181 - 1226
"I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just."
Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States 1743 - 1826

ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED. WHATEVER BEFALLS THE EARTH, BEFALLS THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH. MAN DID NOT WEAVE THE WEB OF LIFE; HE IS MERELY A STRAND IN IT. WHATEVER HE DOES TO THE WEB, HE DOES TO HIMSELF.
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                                 I CAME NOT TO DISTURB OR DESTROY ANY FAITH BUT TO CONFIRM IN EACH HIS OWN FAITH - SO THAT THE CHRISTIAN BECOMES A BETTER CHRISTIAN, THE MUSLIM, A BETTER MUSLIM, AND THE HINDU A BETTER HINDU.       SATHYA SAI BABA


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"WE HANG THE PETTY THIEVES AND APPOINT THE GREAT ONES TO PUBLIC OFFICE."
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On November 19, 1945, only 7 months into his presidency, Harry S. Truman sent a Presidential message to the United States Congress proposing a new national health care program. In his message, Truman argued that the federal government should play a role in health care, saying "The health of American children, like their education, should be recognized as a definite public responsibility."

WAR DOESN'T DETERMINE WHO IS RIGHT, WAR DETERMINES WHO IS LEFT.
Bertrand Russell 1872-1970 English Philosopher, author
1950 Nobel Prize winner in literature



"AMERICA WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED FROM THE OUTSIDE. IF WE FALTER AND LOOSE OUR FREEDOMS, IT WILL BE BECAUSE WE DESTROYED OURSELVES."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES



IN THE SPIRIT OF WARRIOR WOMAN LOZEN.....LET US NOT FORGET OUR WOMEN WARRIORS OF TODAY. LOZEN WAS BORN INTO THE CHIHENNE OF THE WARM SPRINGS APACHE BAND. HER BROTHER WAS CHIEF VICTORIO AND HE SAID THIS ABOUT LOZEN "LOZEN IS MY RIGHT HAND......STRONG AS A MAN BRAVER THAN MOST, AND CUNNING IN STRATEGY, LOZEN IS A SHIELD TO HER PEOPLE." LOZEN WAS CAPTURED ALONG WITH GERONIMO AT THEIR FINAL STAND IN 1886. GERONIMO ALSO ADMIRED HER ABILITIES AND SAID SHE COULD TELL FROM WHICH DIRECTION THE ENEMY CAME FROM THE PALMS OF HER HANDS.


                                         I WALK THE RED PATH

"EVERY GUN THAT IS MADE, EVERY WARSHIP LAUNCHED, EVERY ROCKET FIRED SIGNIFIES, IN THE FINAL SENSE, A THEFT FROM THOSE WHO HUNGER AND ARE NOT FED, THOSE WHO ARE COLD AND ARE NOT CLOTHED. THIS WORLD IN ARMS IS NOT SPENDING MONEY ALONE. IT IS SPENDING THE SWEAT OF ITS LABORERS, THE GENIUS OF ITS SCIENTISTS, THE HOPES OF ITS CHILDREN....UNDER THE CLOUD OF THREATENING WAR, IT IS HUMANITY HANGING FROM A CROSS OF IRON."
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND GENERAL DURING WWII

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“Everything that gives birth is female. When men begin to understand the relationships of the universe that women have always known, the world will begin to change for the better.” Lorraine Canoe, Mohawk

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THE SOLDIER ABOVE ALL OTHERS PRAYS FOR PEACE.
FOR IT IS THE SOLDIER WHO MUST SUFFER AND BARE
THE DEEPEST WOUNDS AND SCARS OF WAR.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR


MANKIND MUST PUT AN END TO WAR BEFORE WAR PUTS AN END TO MANKIND.
JOHN F. KENNEDY 35TH PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES






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"I BELIEVE IN IMMERSING THE INDIANS IN OUR CIVILIZATION AND WHEN WE GET THEM UNDER, HOLDING THEM THERE UNTIL THEY ARE THOUGHLY SOAKED......KILL THE INDIAN SAVE THE MAN."
RICHARD H. PRATT 1879
WHO CONVINCED SENATOR DAWES TO BEGIN THE DISASTEROUS INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS PROGRAMS.

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MITAKUYE OYASIN
IN MEMORY OF:ANNA MAE AQUASH MI' KMAQ FROM NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA 1945 - 1976

In Bar Harbor, Maine, Aquash became involved in the Teaching and Research in Bicultural Education School Project (TRIBES), a program designed to teach young Indians about their history. She soon moved to Boston where she met members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who were protesting against the Mayflower II celebration at Boston Harbor, boarding and seizing the ship on Thanksgiving Day of 1970.
Anna Mae was active in creating the Boston Indian Council (now the North American Indian Center of Boston). It was also at that time that she met her second husband, Nogeeshik Aquash, from Walpole Island, Canada. They traveled to Pine Ridge together in 1973 to join AIM in the 71-day armed re-occupation of Wounded Knee, which is where they were married by Wallace Black Elk. She was also involved in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, D.C. that led to the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters, and armed occupations by AIM and other indigenous warriors at Anicinabe Park in Kenora, Ontario in 1974 and the Alexian Brothers Novitiate at Gresham, Wisconsin, in 1975.
By the spring of 1975, Anna Mae "was recognized and respected as an organizer in her own right and was taking an increasing role in the decision-making of AIM policies and programs," according to her biographer, Johanna Brand. She was personally close to AIM members such as Leonard Peltier. She worked until her death (murdered in 1976) for the Elders and Lakota People of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.



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"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
Pastor Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemoller 1892-1984

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Eating Habits	trying to keep it somewhat healthy!
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My Philosophy	The Golden Rule is a good start. Mitakuye Oyasin means We Are All Related....We Are Related to All
What Gives Me Hope	The Great Spirit
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	Abolish this mess of a tax system. A health care system similar to Japan which would mean coverage for all.
What/who changed my life and why	The one who now walks in the Spirit World that I had called husband and my best friend. He showed how a man could love, respect, and be an equal with a woman. Mom Lee & Dad Len two people who gave me selfless love. My children for allowing me new experiences and bringing out my selfless love.
What Bugs Me	Thieves, liars, arrogance, abusive people
Passions	my children, spirituality, my family, my friends, love, peace
Inspirations	The Great Spirit
What Scares Me	Big Corportations, The loss of loved ones in the physical, "Big Brother", High Places, spiders!!! EEK!!
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Role Models	Aaron Russo, Mom Lee, Dad Len, Bono, John Trudell, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Chief Seattle, Grandpa Eagle Bear, Chief Joseph, Helen Keller, Dalai Lama, John Lennon, Alice Paul Suffergette, Lucy Burn Suffergette, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi
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Books	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Mourning Dove, Fools Crow, Walking in the Sacred Manner, Nature Speaks, Custer Died for Your Sins, Crow Dog, Nature's Way, Native Wisdom, Honoring the Medicine, The Wind is My Mother
Music	all kinds
Movies	Windwalker (Native American - 70's film), Schindler's list, Rocky Horror Picture Show, powder, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Monty Python, Ladyhawke, Ice Age 1 and 2, ERIN BROCKOVICH, Dances with Wolves, Smoke Signals, Naturally Native
TV Shows	National Geographic Channel, PBS documentaries, PBS Nova, PBS Frontline, CNN Lou Dobbs, lost, history channel, Discovery Channel
Favorite Foods	Lobster!!!, Tea (hot or iced), Blueberries, strawberries
Favorite Places	florida, home, With those I love
Can't Live Without	The Great Spirit, love, shelter, Air, water, sunshine, friends and family
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Dalia H. (572)	Hello my Beautiful Dandelion Thanks so much for the Beautiful Music, I Love that music because at my work site, there are some Native Americans Kids and they Love that music, too We sing and dance in our daily activities Much Love and Respect, Black Dalia
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