The Fathers ~ 3

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Tsalagi ~ Cherokee Farewell

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We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country the Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth...it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood...we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear."
Charles Hicks, Tsalagi (Cherokee) Vice Chief of the Trail of Tears,
Nov.4,1833

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Great Indian Quotes

* "Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,

we borrow it from our Children."

* An ancient Indian Proverb

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* The Tracker

* "If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the.....

present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers.
I would raise him to be an Indian!"

"We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory.

But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Tom Brown, Jr., The Tracker

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* Mourning Dove ~ Salish ~

1888-1936
*...... everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

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**Children were encouraged to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing.
When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success.
When a child carried water for the home, an elder would give compliments, pretending to taste meat in water carried by a boy or berries in that of a girl.The child was encouraged not to be lazy and to grow straight like a sapling.

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Quiz!!!

Indian people have been on this continent approximately 20,000 years.

(TRUE) or (FALSE)

ANSWER

"Radio carbon dates are not always infallible, but enough have been accumulated, in conjunction with other archaeologic and geologic evidence, to place man unshakably in America well before 10,000 years ago,and probably before 20,000 years ago.
A recent discovery near Puebla, Mexico, may push back the horizon to well before 30,000 years ago."

cf. American Heritage Book of Indians
by Alvin Josephy.

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Quiz! ! !

Indians were excellent horsemen even before the coming of the white man.

(TRUE) or (FALSE)

ANSWER

In the ancient past, small horses did range the west, but these have long been extinct.

The Conquistadores brought the present horse. To native people they seemed like invincible centaurs -- they were called "Wakan"., i.e. Holy. But soon the Indians of the Plains did become some of the greatest horsemen the world has ever seen.

cf.They Sang for Horses, by LaVerne Harrell Clark.

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