- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020