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How can you buy or sell the sky - The warmth of the land
The idea is strange to us
Yet we do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water
How can you buy them from us
Every part of this earth is sacred to my people
We know that white man does not understand our ways
One portion of the land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs
The earth is not his brother but his enemy and when he has conquered it he moves on
He leaves his fathers' graves and his children's birthright is forgotten
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities ~
No place to hear the leaves of spring or the rustle of insect wings ~
But perhaps because I am a savage and do not understand - the clatter only seems to insult the ears ~
And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lovely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frog around the pond at night ~
The Whites too shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes ~
Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste ~
When the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses all tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires ~
Where is the eagle °Gone° ~
Where is the buffalo °Gone° ~
And what is it to say goodbye to the swift and the hunt, the end of living and the beginning of survival ~
~~~ By Chief Seattle ~~~
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The following links are to some Native Ameican homepages that I have come acrossed while surfing the web.
Red Hearts
War Hawks Nest
Stone E's Weblodge
Cloud Dancer's Lodge
Grey Wolf Woman
Spirit Of The Wolf
The following list of links are of Native American leaders and other old west happenings and sites
Trail of Tears
Cherokee Of North Carolina
Cherokee History
Frog Lake Massacre
Seattle
American Horse Sioux
Big Bear Lakota
Blackelk Lakota
Joseph Brant Mohawk
Cochise Apache
Crazy Horse Lakota
Dan George
Dull Knife Cheyenne
Gall Hunkpapa Sioux
Geronimo Apache
Hole-in-the-Day Ojibway
Joseph Nez Perce
Little Crow Kaposia Sioux
Little Wolf Cheyenne
Ohiyesa/Dr.Charles Eastman Santee Sioux
Quannah Parker Comanche
Rain-in-the-Face Sioux
Red Cloud Lakota
Red Jacket Seneca
Roman Nose Cheyenne
Sequoya Cherokee
Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Sioux
Spotted Tail Brule Sioux
Standing Bear Lakota
Tamaway Sioux
Tecumseh Shawnee
Two Strike Sioux
Washakie Shoshoni
Wolf Robe Cheyenne
Wovoka Paiute
The West
The Oregon Trail
The Donner Party
Native American Art
Site Of The 6 Nations
Tuscaroras
AAA Indian Flutes
Chickasaw
