To Walk in the Sacred WayGRANDFATHER, Look at our brokenness, We know that in all creation only the human family has strayed from the sacred way. We know that we are the ones who are divided and we are the ones who must come back together to walk in the sacred way. Grandfather, sacred one, teach us love, compassion, honor that we may heal the earth and heal each other. Ojibway prayer Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anyone or do harm to anybody. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life. Wovoka (Piaute) No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth! Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children! Tecumseh (Shawnee) The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself. Black Hawk (Sauk) Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you have only a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range. Chief Dan George (Coast Salish) The red man has ever fled the approach of the white man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun... It matters little where we pass the remnants of our days. They will not be many. But why should I mourn the untimely fate of my people? Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the white man, whos God walked and talked with him as friend with friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers, after all. We will see... Chief Seattle (Seqwamish & Duwamish) Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from thier fathers. These laws were good. Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) | |