"Although we see and experience terrible things everyday there's always a beautiful lesson in it. whether it teaches us how to be or not be, appreciate life and not take it for granted, or having the strength to forgive and be forgiven."
-Nathan Chasing Horse,
Lakota
"And those youth out there that want to learn the culture but drink or do drugs, I would encourage them to remember
that Tunkasila, the Creator, already forgave you--that it is you that have to know how to forgive yourself."
-Nathan Chasing Horse, Lakota
" We are living in a time when we all need to come together and help one another. The spirits say we need to learn to get along."
-Nathan Chasing Horse, Lakota "To survive you've got to depend on each other, that's the way. If we didn't get along a long time ago, and if the
people didn't agree and come together and help one another, we wouldn't have survived the hardships. So, we have to
learn to bring that back. We have to learn how to put our differences aside rather than getting into "this person has
more money" or "that person has more money", or, "this person has more knowledge" or "that person has more
knowledge". We have to learn to get along. We don't have time to be arguing and putting each other down, there's no time for that anymore. "
-Nathan Chasing Horse, Lakota "There is a crisis with the children in Indian country today. Three things are necessary: a good coat, nutritious food,
and a warm place to sleep. Only on this foundation can we secure these children's physical and spiritual development."
-Chief Joseph Chasing Horse
"You are part of everything! You are part of the fire, you are part of the water, you are part of the green, you are part
of the stars, and you are related to everything. You are related to the stones, to the trees, to the fish, to the
creepy-crawlers, to the ones that fly, to the ones that walk on all fours, and to the ones that walk on two legs.
Everything is sacred and, therefore, you are sacred too. That's what we mean when we say, Mitakuye oyasin."
-Wallace Black Elk, Sicangu Lakota Spiritual Elder |
