Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.