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POPSSacred Way Only through unity will we achieve and regain our way. We must pray to the Creator to guide us on the sacred path, where we once stood united as the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island. We as the true peoples of Turtle Island are all powerful when united as one. Cougar
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POPSTested At this time in my life all I can do is write. It is my way of fighting for the equality, truth, Justice and Rights of my Aboriginal Brothers and sisters. It takes alot of research, time and patients with very little return, but with every response I feel a realization of recognition for my words and that maybe, just maybe, I have gotten through to someone. Cougar
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POPSEducation Education is vital for our survival, how ever the education provided is not up to standards with the rest of the world, you see the poor education programs provided to the Native communities lags far behind, for a reason, it's just another way the governments use to keep the Indigenous people under their control. Cougar
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POPSNative People It is most difficult to live within our culture and spirituality, in my experience, I have found that this generation do not even know their own culture, nor speak their own language, language is so important in understanding our culture. Cougar
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POPSTecumseh, Shawnee Creator, let my decisions have the strength of the bundle. "Hear me! A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong." One of the hardest things I have ever tried to do was to unite Native Tribe's. For a few years I worked with 15 different Hereditary Chiefs and Headmen, and I found that when dealing with the Federal Government of Canada, they listened to what was being said to them. This would never happen with one Chief or with Elected Chiefs and Councils under the Indian Act. This is a proven fact. One Hereditary Chief has written to the Government and even over a year had not heard from them. I wrote one letter and received an answer before a week, it was amazing what the power of unity could do. In the past year I have seen some of that unity with the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, but this is still not enough, there are some many out there who are still under the thumb of the Colonial Government, held there by greed a learned thing from when the Government
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POPSAlanis Obomsawin, Abenaki I see this as a true reason, no Treaty is valid with the New Comers to this land, The Treaties are written in English full of words that have no meaning to the Aboriginal Peoples of Turtle Island. There was no written language, history was past down by word of mouth, word for word. The New Comers could write what ever they wanted without the Aboriginal Peoples understanding. In Council meetings one did not lie, so the Natives trusted what was said to them. Creator, let me learn the lessons You have taught my people. Cougar
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POPSTraditional Circle of Elders, Northern Cheyenne Creator, whisper what You want me to do. "Come forward and join hands with us in this great work for the Creator." Have you spoke to the Great Spirit? Can you speak to the Great Spirit? All can speak to the Great Spirit and if you really listen to him, take his guidance, he will open you heart and mind to untold riches of great healing. Cougar
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POPSTraditional Circle of Elders, Navajo-Hopi, Joint Use Area Great Spirit, teach me Your Laws, so I may others that follow. "The Natural Law will prevail regardless of man-made laws, tribunals and governments." The Great Spirit taught us to follow the Natural Law, to live in peace and harmony, to never take more than you need from this earth, to share what you have with others, to honor the land, he did not write these laws on stone slabs, but placed them within our hearts and minds. Cougar
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POPSRobert Spott, Yurok One may ask is God really guiding us or putting obstacles in our path to challenge us to make the right decisions as to our purpose in life, each one of us have to find this out for them selves, only we can make the right choices. The Creator is always beside you no matter your choice. Cougar
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POPSPhillip Deere, Muskogee-Creek "Life, the circle, a measurement with no beginning and no end." We need to get back to nature to truly understand what Phillip Deere has said, respecting everything including the very rocks beneath your feet. A Native can understand this, but a white man never will until they learn to respect one another, for if they cannot respect one another, how do we expect them to respect the earth? Cougar
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POPSNatural Law Isn't it amazing that when you really look at the different cultures of the Aboriginal Peoples, no matter what Country they are from you see that they all live or lived and understood the Natural Law, that is until the White man came and changed things for the worse. Cougar
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POPSPhil Lane, Sr. Yankton Sioux It only takes a little thing to change our whole perspective on our lives. It will take all of mankind to know this and then, just maybe, mankind might survive. Cougar
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POPSTessie Maranjo, Santa Clara Pubeblo In each persons life this is what we seek, in order to obtain this sometimes we look in different areas, such as religion, attending many different churches, for me I will look within to find my peace, I know the Creator is with me, and where he is, I feel I belong. Cougar
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POPSJohn (Fire) Lame Deer, Rosebud Lakota "Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar." Before the white man arrived there was no money, it wasn't needed the natives looked after one another, the Creator blessed them all with every thing they needed, today money rules the world and look what that as done to man. Cougar
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POPSOren Lyons, Onondaga "Power is not manifested in the human being. True power is in the Creator" This is something our present day leaders do not understand and this is why the world is in the condition it is today. Cougar
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POPSRiches If you look into your heart, which would you want? Cougar
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POPSPercy Lomaquahu, Hopi Creator, give me courage to walk the Red Road. This is a very hard road to walk, it will take all your strength to do so. One does not have to come from the Red Race to walk this road, but it will take the guidance of the Red Race to accomplish your walk. May the Creator guide us all. Cougar
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POPSHumbleness means peace In all languages there is a word for Peace, every one knows this word but few leaders wish to use this word, peace means a loss of funds to a lot of companies and they have no desire for peace either. Cougar
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POPSWilma P. Mankiller, Cherokee Education has always been the back bone of the Native people, I say this as it has always been the Elders who provided us with the knowledge and wisdom, today the younger generation do not know this and are so wrapped up with the new world computerized agenda, that they have lost sight of the true teachers of our people. We can only pray to the Great Spirit that they will open their eyes before it is to late. Remember the ouness falls upon us to guide our children on the true path to knowledge.
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POPSEducation Even though this talks about the Cherokee people, this in fact speaks for all Aboriginal peoples, every where. In Canada the First Nation, Metis & Inuit peoples are not taught the same as in the outside world (white mans world) they are behind and kept that way by the governments who regulate education, they were & are never taught history because the Canadian Governments were and are scared to tell the truth about the Canadian history. This can possibly be said by all the governments around the world who suppress the Indigenous peoples of that country. Cougar
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POPSYour Language I do not know my own Culture, as I lived in a Cree/French Metis Settlement, however they spoke to Cree language and never really understood their own Metis Culture, to much English was spoken. Cougar
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POPSWilma P. Mankiller, Cherokee This is the 21st Century, but the 13th Century is still alive within us, the combination of both is what it will take to make us whole. Cougar
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POPSLanguage Great Spirit, help us maintain our language, spirit, family, religion and our Mother Earth. Cougar
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POPSEdmund Ladd, Zuni Pubeblo Many Native Language's are lost, some are about to be lost, it is very true that we must hold on to our languages to preserve our culture, without our languages, we have no culture's. My ansestors language is almost gone, the Bungee Language, spoken by the Cree-Scott, Metis. Michif spoken by the Cree-French is another. It is to bad that we no longer take pride in our culture's. Cougar
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POPSLakota Proverb In many societies today the parents are to busy to teach their children what is good and what is bad. Todays child spends most of their time playing games, talking on cell phone/phone or watching tv, they don't know what it is to talk to each other as a family, to eat their meals together as a family, so how can they learn, the world moves on a different time now as to what it did in my fathers time. Even though I have spoken these words, I believe in my heart that WE can make a difference in our children's lives if we teach them the values we were tought as children, it is never to late, never to late to try. Cougar
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POPSEllen White, Nanaimo In these times I believe it is most difficult for most people to understand these words, and even more difficult to stand still long enough to know the meaning of them. Cougar
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POPSThe Ancestors When reading this, look closely at your self, do you understand? Do you think you can do this? Do you understand? Look deep. Cougar
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POPSHe Dog, Oglala Lakota In all things I have said we must look to the past to see the future, however when we look to the past in the ways of the Europeans we see that the white man has never honored the woman, but brought forth with them the mis-treatment of the woman with them and infected the cultures they said were un civilized.
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