PrayersandQuotes

"I was hostile to the white man...We preferred hunting to a life of idleness on ourreservations. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to hunt. All we wanted was peace and to be let alone. Soldiers came...in the winter....and destroyed our villages. Then Long Hair (Custer) came...They said we massacred him, but he would have done the same to us. Our first impulse was to escape...but we were so hemmed in we had to fight. After that I lived inpeace, but the government would not let me alone. I was not allowed to remain quiet. I was tired of fighting...They tried to confine me....and a soldier ran his bayonet into me. I have spoken. Crazy Horse		"I remember Dawson (No Horse) said, 'Once you say your prayers, don't worry about them. If you worry about them, they'll just fade away.''--Chuck Ross, LAKOTA Today I need to remember You are everywhere. I need to remember how much You love me. I need to know, Grandfathers, that You are always listening. Today I need to know how much You care. Today I will remember the advice of the Elders. "Say your prayers and then don't worry - know that the Great One has heard you." It's so much easier to do this, Grandfather, when I feel connected to You. My Creator, allow me this day to feel your presence. Let me walk the path of life today and talk to You many times. Give me faith, my Grandfather.
I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes His blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above the earth; and that our Heavenly Father will look upon our children as His children, that all the tribes may be His children, and as we shake hands to-day upon this broad plain, we may forever live in peace. - Red Cloud		Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux All of this Creation is Sacred And so do not forget. Every Dawn as it comes is a holy event and everyday is holy, for the light comes from "WAKAN-TANKA" And Also you Must remember that the Two-leggeds and All other peoples who Stand upon this Earth are Sacred and Should be Treated as Such
Civilized people depend to much on man - made printed pages, I turn to the Great Spirit book which is whole creation, You can read a big part of that book if you study nature, You know if you take all your books lay them out under the sun and let the snow,rain and insects work on them for awhile their will be nothing left, But the Great Spirit has provided you and me with an opportnuity to study nature's university, The Forest,The River, The Mountain's, and The Animal's which include us . --- Walking Buffalo		"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children." Ancient Indian Proverb
...everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. Mourning Dove		"Educational leadership means being a facilitator of change. It means working to change situations and systems and environments, communities, famalies and individuals. It means trying to facilitate some magic, to facilitate empowerment so that systems and people and communities can grow and change." __ Clayton Small, Northern Cheyenne
"All too often we look to stars or gaze upon horizons for answers that lie buried not too deeply within our own hearts...if we have the courage to look there." Sonagolese		When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men. Geronimo
"I'm an Indian, I'm one of God's children." --Mathew King, LAKOTA My Creator, today let me remember the reason I'm here on Mother Earth. Let me look into my own eyes and see the beauty You have created. Let me have good thoughts. Being Indian is not the color of my skin. Being Indian is to listen to my heart, to think only the things You have taught, to watch nature and live in harmony. Being Indian is to walk in prayer, to talk to You constantly during the day. Being Indian is to act and to walk in a sacred way. Today, let me think in beauty, let me walk in beauty, let me pray in beauty .		let us take a day to sit and remember our friends we have talk with when we sit at the fire so long ago.... let us remember there song there smile and heart that they gave the time to show.... let us even remember that day that we have wish them safe train to the next if they have pass on.... for its good to show them you care for that time they share with us all in so many ways.... there will never be some one just like them even if we tell some one so.... take the time to see up as down and down as up for all the little things may be big at time and the big very small, life is more then we take to time to see so what have you seen of it this day.... - Spirit Turtle, friend and mentor

And so do not forget. Every Dawn as it comes is a holy event and everyday is holy, for the light comes from "WAKAN-TANKA" And Also you Must remember that the Two-leggeds and All other peoples who Stand upon this Earth are Sacred and Should be Treated as Such