This We Know. All Things Are Connected

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.

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