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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of…
• We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
• Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
• Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is…
• The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself…
• Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
• The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in…
• Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth…
• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do…
• We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse,…
• All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
• There is no such place as away.

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