If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man’s success - his education, his skills, and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society.

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.