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Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land…

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The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures…
White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and…
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than…
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"…
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense…
Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for…
Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell,…
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth…
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being…
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world…

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