"When you see a new trail, or a foot print you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing."
Uncheedah
The grandmother of Ohiyesa
The Soul of an Indian
and Other Writings from Ohiyesa
(Charles Alexander Eastman)
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
Ohiyesa
We do not chart and measure the vast field of nature or express her wonders in the terms of science; on the contrary, we see miracles on every hand - the miricle jof life in seed and egg, the miricle of death in lightning flash and in the swelling deep!