Looking for a great Native American quote

[fishnfla]

from memory I am paraphrasing the quote so bear with this rusty ol' mind something along the lines of:

'the white man now comes and tells us he owns the land....how can one own the land? that is like saying you own the wind and the sky above..'

Thats the best I can do, thanks in advance

[Xipe Totec]

1. Chief Seattle

If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

http://www.barefootsworld.net/seattle.html

[DeepGreen]

2. Thank You

[fishnfla]

3. Thanks to you and Chief Seattle too

cool, thanks

[Metta]

7. Thanks for the wonderful quote and uplifting link.

Such a validation of spirit and connection. My heart soars.

[JanusAscending]

9. Would that someone could relay this to

The "great white chief" ????:sarcasm:

[Lowell]

4. My grandmother used to quote

Tecumseh and Little Turtle a lot when I was growing up. But my favorite was from the Shawnee, Chiungalla (Black Fish), Tecumseh's Father Friend after the Shawnee victory at Blue Lick, Kentucky.

He told his braves, "Don't be bound by limits you place on yourself. It only when you reach beyond what you think you can do that you will almost surely do far more than you thought you could."

Its always worked for me.

[pretzel4gore]

5. i remember one that amazed me

it concerned some tribesmen being told that a certain whiteman was very rich, with a great amount of personal possessions: the indian leader expressed pity for the guy, saying that the reason he had possessions was that he lacked companions to share his fortune with! If riches weren't shared, they weren't riches
exactly!

[existentialist]

6. quote

"One does not sell the land on which the people walk."

Sitting Bull

[Waya]

8. "One does not sell the land on which the people walk."

Crazy Horse said that - not Sitting Bull.
:)