"The Great Spirit is the one that's looking after us."

The only place our minds can find peace is when our focus

is on the Creator.

Daily we need to ask the Creator to direct our thinking.

When we look at our brothers and sisters, we need to see the Creator in them.

When we look at the trees, plants and the animals,

we need to realize the Creator is within us.

Our attention needs to be on the Creator.

When we work, we do it for the Creator.

When we are troubled, we need to pray to the Creator.

When we are happy and joyful, we need to realize

we are feeling the presence of the Creator.

Thinking God thoughts will produce peace.

Oh Great Mystery, let me focus on You today.

Everything On Our Earth is Alive

"In the Indian way, we are connected to that flower if we understand its spirit, the essence of its life." --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA

Everything on our Earth is alive. Every rock, every plant, every animal, every tree, every bird,every thought is alive. This is true because everything is made by the Great Spirit and the Great Spirit is alive. We need to slow our lives down each day and realize, consciously, that this is true. First we need to realize it, second, we need to acknowledge it, third, we need to appreciate it and, finally, we need to go on. Great Spirit, let me see life through Your eyes. Today let me be alive.

Press On

Now brother, I assure you, I will press on, and the contrary winds may blow strong in my face, yet I will go forward and never turn back, and continue to press forward until I have finished, and I would have you do the same ....

----Teedyuscung, Delaware

I Want No Blood Upon My Land

Great Spirit, I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish it so, that all who go through among my people may find it peaceful when they come, and leave peacefully when they go.

Ten Bears, Yamparika Comanche

They Will Return Again

My friend,
They will return again, All over the Earth,
They are returning again,
Ancient teachings of the Earth Ancient songs of the Earth,
They are returning again.

----Crazy Horse

The Sound of Love

"It is ... the sound of love that at times aches to reach across the barriers of people's strong denial of their better selves. These barriers are stronger than steel and built from generations of fear and doubt, formed and shaped by traditions, and the machinery of powerful political and economic systems."

-- from "Pillars of Fire in a Darkening World" by Paul Lucero

Oh Great Spirit....

Grant us this prayer:

That all men live as one with nature,

and peace reign everywhere...

Mending the "Sacred Hoop"

As Natives, we believe that each race was entrusted with special roles and responsibilities during the creation to complete the great "Sacred Hoop" of life.
Unfortunately, over time, each race forgot that their knowledge was incomplete - only a fraction of the whole truth, and the races began to quarrel with one another, each believing that their knowledge was the whole truth.

In order to mend the "Sacred Hoop", we must remember what is important - family, children, and community. It is our goal to bring families of different races together, to bring down the walls of misunderstanding to share a little of our heritage, through music and dance, and to understand that we are all not that different.

Ralph Moisa, Jr.

"I" Am the "I"

"I" AM THE "I"

"I" come forth from the void into the light,

"I" am the breath that nurtures life,

"I" am that emptiness, that hollowness beyond all consciousness,

The "I", the Id, the All.

"I" draw my bow of rainbows across the waters,

The continuum of minds with matters.

"I" am the incoming and outgoing of breath,

The invisible, untouchable breeze,

The undefinable atom of creation.

"I" am the "I".