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 1850â&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.