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| "My son, my body is returning to my Mother Earth, and my spirit is going very soon to see the Great Spirit Chief. When I'm gone think of your country...Always remember your father never sold his country." |
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| "Animals and plants are taught by Wakan Tanka what they are to do. Wakan Tanka teaches the birds to make nests, yet the rest of all birds are not alike. Wakan Tanka gives them merely the outline. Some make better nests than other." |
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| "But why should I mourn at untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, nation follow nation, like the waves of the sea. It's the order of nature, and regret it's useless. your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend with friend, cannot be exempted from the common destiny." |
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| "To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. You wander far from the graves of your ancestors and seemingly without regret." |
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| ..asked in Canada why he did not surrender and return to the Univted states to live on a reservation, he replied, "Because I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows." |
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| "You say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you White people differ so much about it? Why not all agree, as you can all read the book? |
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| Chief Luther Standing Bear |
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| "The white man does not understand America. he is too far removed from the formative process. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped the rock and soil. The white man is still troubled by primitive fears; he still has in his consciousness the perils of this frontier continent..." |
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| Chief Luther Standing Bear |
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| "We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and the widing streams with tangled growth as "wild"..." |
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| "Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come and always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for...Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our path. They grow everywhere." |
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| Chief Luther Standing Bear |
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| "But in the Indian the spirit of the land is still vested; it will be until other men are able to divine and meet its rhythm. Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefathers bones." |
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