Speech by Lakota leader Gayle High Pine, published in the magazine Akwesasne Notes, in 1973. Addressed from an…
Traditional wisdom has given a transcendent meaning to emptiness, pain and disorder, has set limits to excesses and…
We have to understand that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We have to know…
Until now we had ignored our little brother. We had not deigned ourselves to give him a seed….
Among us there were no more temples or sanctuaries than those of nature. Being a natural man, the…
All things are connected, like the blood that unites our family. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does it to himself.
In the ideas of reneweing yourself and the ideas of finding peace in our community, you should tell…
Do not fear, for the mortals are divine by race, to whom holy Nature everything will reveal and…
Heaven is my father and the Earth is my mother, and even such a small creature as I,…
Joint declaration of the traditional custodians of the sacred mountains of Pamir, Tien Shan and Altai Sayan (Kyrgyzstan,…