American Indian understands need for spiritual priority

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Dear All,

 

Read this and see that the American Indian understand the need for the spiritual

priority - which is also the spiritual reality! They know where the true value

for human beings lie! White man has much to learn from them!

 

violet

 

 

" The white people who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us

to be what they call assimilated, bringing the Indians into the mainstream and

destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we

should be contented like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and

greedy, which is very different from our way.

 

We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want

any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our

religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and to live in peace. We

don't want power, we don't want to be congressmen, bankers, we want to be

ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land

and because we belong here.

 

The white man says there is freedom and justice for all. We have had " freedom

and justice, " and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not

forget this. "

 

1927 Grand Council of American Indians

 

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