Native American Proverbs Cards

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we are all one child spinning

through

MOTHER SKY


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we ar e all one child spinning through mother sky


it is less of

A PROBLEM TO BE

poor

THAN TO BE DISHONEST





each bird

loves to

hear himself

SING


THOSE

that lay with

DOGS

get up with

F L E A S


you already possess

everything you need to

become

great


our first

teacher is our own

HEART


coyote is always out there

waiting &

coyote is always hungry


IF YOU SEE NO

REASON FOR

GIVING THANKS THE FAULT LIES

WITHIN

YOURSELF


a hungry stomach makes a short

p r ay e r


every animal

knows more than you do


the frog does not drink up in which he lives

the pond


the rain falls

on the just and

the unjust


we will be known forever

by the tracks

we leave


THOSE WHO HAVE ONE

FOOT IN THE canoe AND one IN THE BOAT WILL FALL IN THE river


day & night

cannot dwell TOGETHER


tribe: duwamish territory: washington state language: lushootseed biography: the duwamish are a luhootseed native american tribe in western washington

and the indigenous people of metropolitan seattle, where they have been living since the end of the last glacial period (c. 8000 b.c.e. or 10,000 years ago) . the duwamish tribe dedcends from at least two distinct groups from before intense contact with people of european ancestry-- the people of the inside (the environs of elliot bay) and the people of large lake (lake washington)-and continues to evolve both culturally and ethnically. by historic language, the duwamish are lushootseed; lushootseed is a salishan language. adjacent tribes throughouth the puget soundstrait of georgia basin were, and are, interconnected and interrelated, yet distinct. the present0day duwamish tribe developed in parallel with the times of the treaty of point elliott and its aftermath in the 1850’s although not recognized by the u.s. federal government, the duwamish remain an organized tribe with roughly 500 enrolled members as of 2004.


a good chief

GIVES he does not TAKE


tribe: mohawk territory: upstate new york and canada language: kanien’keha biography: the mohawk are the most easterly tribe of the iroquois confederation. they

called themselves kanien’gehaga, “people of the place of flint.” the mohawk are an iroquoianspeaking indigenous people of north america orignally from the mohawk valley in upstate new york. their territory ranged to present-day quebec and eastern ontario. their current settlements include areas around lake ontario and the st. lawrence river in canada. their traditional homeland stretched southward of the mohawk river, eastward to the green mountains of vermont, westward to the border with the oneida nation traditional homeland territory and northward to the st. lawrence river. as original members of the iroquois leage, or haudenosaunee, the mohawk were known as the “keepers of the eastern door” for hundreds of years they guarded the iroquois conferderation against invasion from that direction by tribes from new england and lower new york areas. the mohawk religion is primarily animist.


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