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Native-Americans will always be the coolest

just randomly browsin' around the net cuz i'm rendering huge scenes that take forever i ran across some cool little gems. i clicked on the Native American Proverbs and started reading them. man, the Native-American Indians really knew what it was all about. here are my favorites...


- "WE do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." tribe unknown

- "It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep." Navajo

- "It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest." Anishinabe

- "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." Hopi

- "There is no death, only a change of worlds." Duwamish

- "It is easy to be brave from a distance." Omaha

- "A brave man dies but once; a coward, many times." Iowa

- "A starving man will eat with the wolf." Oklahoma

- "The one who tells the stories rules the world." Hopi

- "The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs." Southwest

- "Each person is his own judge." Shawnee

- "Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." tribe unknown

- "Man has responsibility, not power. " Tuscarora

- "Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way." Blackfoot

- "Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. " Cree

- "If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. " Minquass

- "Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself." Pima

- "Sharing and giving are the ways of God." Sauk

- "With all things and in all things, we are relatives." Sioux

- "Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart." Omaha

- "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Cherokee

- "Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future." Lumbee

- "Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts." Hopi

- "Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance." Lakota

- "Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you." Hopi

- "The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry." Omaha

- "One finger cannot lift a pebble." Hopi

- "Our first teacher is our own heart." Cheyenne

- "He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone." Seneca

- "When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard." Lakota

- "Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something." Maricopa

- "Cherish youth, but trust old age." Pueblo

- "In age, talk; in childhood, tears." Hopi

- "A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass." Sioux

- "In death, I am born." Hopi

- "They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind." Tuscarora

- "All who have died are equal." Comanche

- "It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace." Shenandoah

- "Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed." Plains

- "Even a small mouse has anger." tribe unknown

- "Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass." tribe unknown

- "A good chief gives, he does not take." Mohawk

- "Lose your temper and you lose a friend; lie and you lose yourself." Hopi

- "We who are clay blended by the Master Potter, come from the kiln of Creation in many hues. How can people say one skin is colored, when each has its own coloration? What should it matter that one bowl is dark and the other pale, if each is of good design and serves its purpose well." Polingaysi Qoyawayma, Hopi

- "A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal." Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

- "In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." From the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

12:43 p.m. - 2005-10-18

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