John Fire Lame Deer Quotes

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• We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home…
• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the…
• You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.
• We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.
• Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.
• Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians.
• If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog…
• Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar,
• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals…
• Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.
• If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

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