Monday, April 19, 2010

May we learn how to honor Earth from Native American teachings...




"My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams.

You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.

You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair?"

-Smohalla, founder of the dreamer religion - Sokulk band of Nez Perce

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