Crazy Horse - about Great Spirit

"We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home. You had yours. We did not interfere with you. The Great Spirit gave us plenty of land to live on, and buffalo, deer, antelope and other game. But you have come here, you are taking my land from me, you are killing off our game, so it is hard for us to live.

Now, you tell us to work for a living, but the Great Spirit did not make us to work, but to live by hunting. You white men can work if you want to. We do not interfere with you, and again you say why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them."

Crazy Horse - Sioux

Windhorse Peace Pipe by Greg Stout

W dniu dzisiejszym o godzinie 11:11 czasu amerykańskiego miała miejsce publikacja książki wspaniałego człowieka, o głębokiej duchowości i ogromnej wiedzy na temat Indian - ich historii, tradycji i wierzeń. Greg Stout, bo o nim mowa, mieszka i żyje na Hawajach, prowadzi życie w zgodzie z Naturą i czynnie uczestniczy w internetowym życiu grup społecznościowych poruszających tematykę Indian.

Zainteresowanych odsyłam na jego stronę internetową - www.windhorsemedia.net -  znajdziecie tam nie tylko ciekawe informacje o samym Autorze- Gregu, ale również odnośniki do społeczności Windhorse Circle for Rainbow Warriors i na stronę Windhorse Media, a także możecie zamówić książkę Windhorse Peace Pipe przez internet.

Zapraszam serdecznie do odwiedzania strony WindhorseMedia, a Gregowi gratuluję z całego serca :)

Luther Standing Bear - about Indian faith

Nothing the Great Mystery placed in the land of the Indian pleased the white man, and nothing escaped his transforming hand. Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to him is an "unbroken wilderness"

But, because for the Lakota there was no wilderness, because nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly, Lakota philosophy was healthy - free from fear and dogmatism. And here I find the great distinction between the faith of the Indian and the white man. Indian faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings; the other sought the dominance of surroundings.

In sharing, in loving all and everything, one people naturally found a due portion of the thing they sought, while, in fearing, the other found the need of conquest.

For one man the world was full of beauty, for the other it was a place of sin and ugliness to be endured until he went to another world, there to become a creature of wings, half-man and half-bird.

Forever one man directed his Mystery to change the world. He had made; forever this man pleaded with Him to chastise his wicked ones; and forever he implored his God to send His light to earth. Small wonder this man could not understand the other.

But the old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So he kept his children close to nature's softening influence.

Chief Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux

kanoe

KANOE – łódź indiańska będąca prototypem kajaka; znana również jako kanadyjka

Crazy Horse - about white man

I was hostile to the white man...We preferred hunting to a life of idleness on our reservations. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to hunt. All we wanted was peace and to be let alone. Soldiers came...in the winter...and destroyed our villages. Then Long Hair (Custer) came...They said we massacred him, but he would have done the same to us. Our first impulse was to escape...but we were so hemmed in we had to fight. After that I lived in peace, but the government would not let me alone. I was not allowed to remain quiet. I was tired of fighting...They tried to confine me... and a soldier ran his bayonet into me. I have spoken.

Crazy Horse - Sioux