White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.
Luther Standing BearTraining began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.
Luther Standing BearThe American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.
Luther Standing BearThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
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