A Cherokee Feast Of Days
The land has taken on the look of Thanksgiving time, of fallen acorns and pecans and walnuts. Now we see the bare branches of oaks like muscled arms lifted toward the sky, and fragrant smoke settles in the valley and hangs like gauzy curtains along the river. Southbound geese, called by the Cherokee sa sa-u ni go di, still put down in the open fields to feed, to flap their huge wings, and to honk. They are not the least startled by passersby. It was a time like this when Wolf George came to my grandmother's bearing a beautiful turkey for dinner. E li si said, "A fine turkey, good tasting. Did you raise it?" In his gruff full-blood tones he told the truth as he saw it, "No ma'am. Saw it roosting. Got it before someone stole it."
~ If any white man steal our stock, I will report it openly. ~
SATANTA - KIOWA, 1800s
By: Joyce Sequichie Hifler
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Meditations with our Native American Elders
"Language is a vehicle for carrying spirit, life, family. Language, religion, and land base are three things that characterize culture."
~ Edmund Ladd, ZUNI PUEBLO
The Elders say we need to know the answers to three questions in order for us to be connected the Earth, the Sky, the East, the West, the South, the North. The three questions are: 1. Why are we? 2. Who are we? 3. Where are we going? If we know the language, if we have our spirituality and if we can pray on sacred spots, then we are able to seek the answer to the questions. We must protect the language, religion and land so our future generations can stay connected.
Great Spirit,~* help us maintain our language, spirit, family, religion and our Mother Earth.
By: Don Coyhis
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