- You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.
(Cochise, Chiricahua Chief )

-Thoughts are like arrows: once released , they strike their mark. Guard them well or one day you may be your own victim. (NAVAJO)

- It is less a problem to be poor than to be dishonest. ANISHINABE

- If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. (Sitting Bull, Teton Lakota (Sioux) )

- The ones that matter most are the children. They are the true human beings.- Lakota (Sioux)

- The Great Spirit is not perfect: it has a good side and a bad side. Sometimes the bad side gives us more knowledge than the good side. - Lakota (Sioux)

- A good man does not take what belongs to someone else. PUEBLO

- Look at me- I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. - Red Cloud, Lakota (Sioux)

- Even in Paradise, living all alone would be Hell. SENECA

- It makes no difference as to the name of the God, since love is the real God of all the world. APACHE

Indian wisdom : http://www.thewildwest.org/native_american/wisdom/index.html

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