Smohalla Quotes

• Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

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  Smohalla

  Dream   Inspiration   Men  

  "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.

  470

• My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.

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  Smohalla

  Dream   Mother   Native American  

  "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.

  968

• God told me to look after my people-all are my people.

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  Smohalla

  People   Justice   Looks  

  1389

• My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.

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  Smohalla

  Dream   Men   Young  

  "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.

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