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Folklore Center NATIVE AMERICAN LEGENDS Native American Proverbs & Wisdom 1.Dont be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. - Hopi 2.Day and night cannot dwell together. - Duwamish 3.It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache 4.They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind. - Tuscarora 5. All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them. - Arapaho 6. Tell me and Ill forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and Ill understand. - Tribe Unknown. 7. Before eating, always take time to thank the food. - Arapaho 8. When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us. - Arapaho 9. If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. - Arapaho 10. Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves. - Assiniboine 11. Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. - Blackfoot 12. In age, talk; in childhood, tears. - Hopi 13. We always return to our first loves. - Tribe Unknown 14. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - Blackfoot 15. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. - Cherokee 16. Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river. - Tuscarora 17. The weakness of the enemy makes our strength. - Cherokee 18. When the white man discovered this country, Indians were running it. No taxes, no debt, women did all the work. White man thought he could improve on a system like this. - Cherokee 19. A good soldier is a poor scout. - Cheyenne 20. Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man. - Sioux 21. We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. - Dakota 22. Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins. - Cheyenne 23. There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail. - Navajo 24. Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. - Lakota 25. Our first teacher is our own heart. - Cheyenne
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:30:16 +0000

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