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Oren Lyons

(1930) Lacrosse Player United States

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Oren Lyons is a lacrosse player from the United States, best known for Rebuilding Native nations.

Quick Facts About Oren Lyons

Born: January 1, 1930
Nationality: United States
Profession: Lacrosse Player
Notable works: Rebuilding Native nations

About Oren Lyons

Oren R. Lyons Jr. is a Haudenosaunee Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of both the Onondaga Nation and the Seneca Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River. For more than 14 years he has been a member of the Indigenous Peoples of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and has had other leadership roles.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Audubon Medal Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences USILA Third Team All-American

Quotes by Oren Lyons

“If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going…

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All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

All things

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Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers…

Danger

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We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

Get back

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We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be…

Being thankful

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When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and…

Culture

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If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring…

Atmosphere

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We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and…

Billions

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Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

Goes on

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I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves…

Ants

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The law says if you poison the water, you’ll die. The law says that if you poison the air, you’ll suffer. The…

Air

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I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider…

Ants

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In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

Absence

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The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.

Environment

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The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The…

Aging

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Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

Boat

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If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

Character

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Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's…

Controllers

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What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

Natural

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What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will…

11th hour

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Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river…

Boat

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Times change but principles don't. Times change but lands do not. Times change but our culture and our language remain the same.…

Change

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We say that the faces of coming generations are looking up from the earth. So when you put your feet down, you…

Earth

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When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are…

Earth

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I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves…

Delegation

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