GREAT SPIRIT! YOU LIVED FIRST, AND YOU ARE OLDER THAN ALL
NEED, OLDER THAN ALL PRAYER. ALL THINGS BELONG TO YOU--THE TWO- LEGGED, THE
FOUR -LEGGED, THE WINGS OF THE AIR AND ALL GREEN THINGS THAT LIVE.....
BLACK ELK ,
LUTHER STANDING BEAR, OGLALA
BLACK ELK
One does not sell the land the people walk on Crazy Horse
At the center of the old Sioux society was the tiyospaye, the extended
family group, the basic hunting band.
Which included grandparents, uncles, aunts, in-laws and cousins.
The tiyospaye was like a warm womb cradling all within it.
Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Sioux
A MAN OR WOMAN
WITH MANY CHILDREN HAS MANY HOMES.
LAKOTA SIOUX PROVERB
FOR THE LAKOTA THERE WAS NO WILDERNESS. NATURE
WAS NOT DANGEROUS BUT HOSPITABLE, NOT FORBIDDING
BUT FRIENDLY.
LUTHER STANDING BEAR, LAKOTA SIOUX
GRANDFATHER , I PRAY TO YOU
GRANDFATHER, DON'T LET ME TAKEN
AWAY.
MY PEOPLE NEED ME,
AS I NEED THEM,  
 
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