Indian SpiritMichael Oren Fitzgerald A compilation of rare photographs, some of which have never before been published, accompanied by the words of some of the wisest leaders ever to have lived. The photographs and words are taken from of tribes from the Great Plains, the sigle message is that the olden days and their way of life were imbued with the presence of the Great Spirit. |
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Absaroke Acbadadea American Indian spiritual animals Bear Oglala Lakota believe Black Elk Blackfeet Brother Brule Lakota Buffalo Bull Hunkpapa Lakota camp ceremony Crow Medicine Crow Sun Dance Crow tribe Curly Bear eagle earth everything feast Fools Crow forefathers friends Frithjof Schuon ground says hear heart holy Hopi Indian Spirit Indian James Red Cloud Lakota Indian Spirit land live look lowtail Medicine Crow medicine fathers Michael Fitzgerald Michael Oren Miniconjou Lakota Mystery Native American Nez Perce nomadic Oglala Lakota Indian old-timers path Perennial Philosophy person photographs Plains Indians Plenty Coups pray prayer pre-reservation red children religion religious rites Sacred Worlds series shamans silence Sioux smoke the pipe songs Southern Cheyenne Standing Bear Sun Dance Chief talk taught tell things Thomas Yellowtail tipi told trees understand virgin Nature vision quester Wahpeton Dakota wakan manner Wakan Tanka warriors white man's wisdom Wolf Robe words young כככ
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Page 104 - Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. "You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men! But how dare I cut off my...
Page 48 - Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors— the dreams of our old men, given them in the solemn hours of night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
Page 104 - You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair?