Elder Quote Posters

‘Opening yourself to another waar begs will assist you ie ie tely and forever; they are you would know the ‘learn it through its sacred or Canyon de Mounds, you of the living its breath upon you. with a spirit that and space.” Jud eEESAN OUR LAW IS THE i LAW OF NATURE® AND YOU NEVER « CAN GO WRONG | WITH THE LAW OF NATURE. “In the old days, they said that you were measured by your generosity, not how much money you earned... You were measured by howiyou dou ead Taf the people... 7, how you could house them, how you could take care of them.” —Elder Faith Spotted Eagle Gathering to Protect the Sacred You are but a mere speck in the vastness of all Creation. Sometimes you feel unimportant, but to Creation, you are important... Creation needs you... and you need Creation, stories will guide you, he to learn, help you to u VW We’ve not been in reservations most of our thousands of years of existence as a people... so I try to encourage young people to think of their identity in a bigger way... as part of the Seven Fireplaces, as an individual identity, as what language they speak or even as their Tiospaye- their extended family. Back in the day, our Tiospaye was the most important part of our identity... a ~. EE APF ASSES r | There was no word for “environmentalist’—that concept—in our language at all. And really, if you stop to think about it, there’s no word for “wilderness” in our language because we were part of a whole. We weren't apart from it. There’s a word, that’s “manitu” that’s become the word for wilderness like a lot of other words have become something else with the influence of Euro-American culture, but “manitu” simply meant where the peeve were Lah Det 's am, but it was all a whole. That was the arene Joseph Marshal Lakota Elde d Author ° ELDER & OLDEST : MEMBER OF THE a : FLANDREAU SANTEE : “ $1OUX TRIBE dn’t have to look at that . that’s what you are first; that’s you breathe first- you breathe Lakota. Yes, ve can be a part of that American Dream.” / Jesse Taken Alive - Elder, Standing Rock Reservation x Let Us Put Our Minds Together And See What Life We Can Make For Our Children Sitting Bull ¢