#native american wisdom

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[julesofnature]

When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money. ~Cree Prophecy

[coyotepoet]

The Medicine wheel. One people and one earth.

Wisdom of the Medicine wheel.. I have been  lucky.  Many kind Native Americans took me under their wing and taught me how to find peace. At the Mall I went to the so-call Native American store. A Middle Eastern man tried to sell me a Chinese made items.  I touched a Medicine Wheel. I told him:  A proper Medicine Wheel has the power of the four winds. I touched a Dream Catcher. A real one would…

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[mvaljean525]

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.

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siʔaɬ / Chief Seattle c.1786-1866

Suquamish and Duwamish chief

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Graphic - Thomas Blackshear II (B.1955)

[ofruinsandmyth]

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

— Luther Standing Bear

[calben-undomiel]

“Search for yourself, by yourself. Don’t allow others to create your path for you. It’s your road and yours alone. Others might walk it with you, but nobody can walk it for you.”

-Native American Code of Ethics

[lioninsunheart]

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. 

I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. 

For a time 

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

—Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems-

Artist: Betty Albert (Cree, Canada)