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NA Inspiration

I am currently reading, Catch the Whipser of the Wind. It is full of insprirational stories and proverbs from Native Americans by Cheewa James. I would like to share two with you today:

"Wars are fought to see who owns the land, but in
the end it possess man,
Who dares say he owns it---is he not
buried benenath it?"

------Cochise, Chiricahua Apache

"Everything the power of the world
does is done in a circle.
The sky is round, and I have heard
that the earth is round like a ball
and so are all the stars.
The wind, in its greatest power, whirls,
Birds make their nests in circles,
for theirs is the same religion as ours,
The sun comes forth and goes down again
in a circle. The moon does the same,
and both are round.
Even the seasons form a great circle
in their changing, and always come
back where they were.
The life of a man is a circle from childhood
to childhood, and so it is in everthing
where power moves."

----Black Eldk, Oglala Sioux

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