“The Lakota was a true naturalist - a lover of Nature. He loved the earth and all things of the earth, and the attachment grew with age. The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power.(cont) It was good for the skin to touch the earth & the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth.
Their tipis were built upon the earth and their alters were made of earth. The birds that flew in the air came to rest upon the earth & (cont)

"The English, in general, are a noble, generous-minded people, free to act and free to think. They very much pride themselves on their civil and religious privileges; on their learning, generosity, manufacturing, and commerce; and they think that no other man is equal to them .. No nation, I think, can be more fond of novelties than the English; they gaze upon foreigner as if they had just dropped down from the moon ...

They are truly industrious, and in general very honest and upright. But their close attention to business produces, I think, too much

"The white people who are trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call assimilated, bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own way of life and our own cultural patterns.
They believe we should be contented like those
cont. whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy happiness is materialistic & greedy, which is very different from our way.

We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our-
cont.

Black Elk Speaks Circa 1890 Long ago the Ancient One told us that this would be. The White man would kill the spirit of the people, and take it to a far place, but after a while it would come back again, it would be reborn again.
1/4 In time a new spirit would come to the world, and we should look for it. Like the raindrops gathering in the clouds of springtime so would the spirit come to a thirsty land and dying people. Let it grow! Let it Grow! This light you must find.
2/4

From personal experience, I know for sure that the number one thing that saddens the dead more than our grief — is not being conscious of their existence around us. They do want you to talk to them as if they were still in a physical body.
1/6 They do want you to play their favorite music, keep their pictures out, and continue living as if they never went away. However, time and " corruption"
2/6

In 1855, my Gx5-Grandfather Major Thomas Sanders Twiss a Graduate from West Point was dispatched to the Dakota’s to investigate Indians were attacking & killing the mail carriers. Twiss concluded his report with the assertion:
1/4 "The Sioux difficulties have been magnified by false and malicious reports. There is not, as I can find, within this Agency, a hostile Indian. On the contrary, all are friendly."
2/4

The Great Spirit gathered all of Creation and said:
"I want to hide something from the humans until
they are ready for it.

It is the realization that they create their own reality
and are every part of this existence that created it." The Eagle said: " Give it to me, I will take it to the Moon."
The Great Spirit said:" No one day they will go there and
find it."

The Salmon said: " I will bury it on the bottom of the ocean."
"No, said the Great Spirit, they will go there too."

Survivors of Woundedknee Massacre- Dec 29, 1890

In 1890 John Langan was freighting for the US Army at Fort Randall when the Massacre at Wounded Knee was inflicted upon defenseless unarmed Minneconjous by the Seventh Calvary

His wagon had been assigned to the Ambulance Corps to bring back the wounded soldiers,but when he arrived, he viewed the almost total decimation of Minneconjous, including Women & Children

He therefore withdrew his wagon from the Army and helped the few Minneconjou who remained alive to bring their dead & dying to Pine Ridge Agency