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Short Story: The pipe-smoking American Indian medicine woman

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 25 Jun 24

[i]Relia Two Toes, was an American Indian healer, and medicine woman, who also had her pipes, which she used in every religious ceremony that she officiated in their tribe. She had large big toes, on each foot, hence her...

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Short story: An Indian, and his wolf

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 1 Jan 24

The American Indian Shaman, Black Cloud, had a tamed wolf, that he had named, Aponi, who lived with him in his Tepee. This wolf accompanied him on his spiritual journeys into the other worlds. The wolf helped him in the...

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Short story: An American Indian Chief talks about life, and what its truth is all about

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 10 Sep 23

The old Indian Chieftain, Chief Charging Bear, was talking to his young son about life. "Remember that your heart will tell you what is true in life." "Never listen too much to the nearsays, who will give you their...

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Short Story: Your role in life. An American Indian chief's view

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 12 Jan 23

The old American Indian chief, Little Big Ant, was talking to his son, about a person's role in life. He said: "While each of us has their own personal mission, and purpose, to fulfil in our lives, each of us is also...

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Short story: An American Indian story, on life, and living it naturally

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 16 Dec 22

Chief Half-Eye, of the Sioux tribe, was so named because he always had one eye open in spirit, and the other in the world. Half of his sight, mind, and heart, were always attached to the spiritual side of things, while the...

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Short story: All war is a crime against peace

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 15 Mar 22

The Sioux Indian chief, Chief Big Bear, was talking to his young son, about fighting, self-defence, and war. Here is what he said: [b]"A man of no vision, fights in his blindness. We do not want war, nor fighting. We want...

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Short story: Chief Living Cloud kept living, even after his death.

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 7 Sep 21

Great Chief Living Cloud, was an American Indian chief, who lived for his people, not for himself. He said that, the Indian lived not for his own life, but for the ongoing life of the world. Then he added, rather...

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An American lndian story, on Life and Death

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 13 Jul 21

Little Big Cloud believed in the Indian idea of harmony, balance, and overall international cooperation between all parts of nature. Nature is generous, but needs to be respected. We need to participate in life, rather...

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Short story: Chief Spotted Horse's question to the Christian brother, Alex Sankin

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 22 Mar 21

The missionaries had been visiting the tribes recently, and were now at Chief Spotted Horse's tribe. They were trying to convert the tribe to Christianity. [b]Alex was trying to tell them about the Christian ideas of...

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Short Story: The Cherokee Indian Chief, Little Big Wolf, talks to his son about life

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 4 Mar 21

It was late one night, when the moon was already up, and when the wolves were already howling. The Chief of the tribe had one son, MoonCloud, named because he was often disappearing behind his own cloud of light. Chief...

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Short Story: The American Indian Medicine man gives a lesson, on nature, to his son

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 26 Jan 21

The American Indian medicine man, Fastcloud, was talking to his young son about trees. He told the boy that trees are human in many ways. [b]They bleed, they talk, they creak, they move. They live both above and below the...

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An American Indian short story fiction piece: Shy Wolf's death.

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 8 May 20

Shy Wolf, the American Indian medicine man of the Sioux tribe, was dying, and he asked one of his fellow braves to brave a run over to a neighbouring tribe, that the medicine man there, might come to help him get over this...

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Indian Nation Story for you to look at

anthony davis @lookatdesktop (27156) • Dallas, Texas 31 Aug 17

I like this one. You might like it as well, From the Indian Nation of South Dakota, here is their story: The American Indian speaks out on their own behalf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OpmScMUMc4

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Chief Running Buffalo speaks his mind from beyond

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 13 Oct 16

I was talking to this great past American Indian chief recently in an inward discussion, meditatively. I asked him what really happened when the white man came to their country, and almost wiped them all out, what was the...

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who discovered America?

markodoom @markodoom (243) • United States 11 Sep 09

columbus discovery america vikings prehistoric man

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Long-Haired Boy Denied Entry Into Kindergarten.....

ctrymuziklvr @ctrymuziklvr (11057) • United States 16 Jul 08

HOUSTON -- A Houston-area school board will decide if a boy's long hair should keep him from attending school after a superintendent denied the request. The Needville Independent School District said 5-year-old Adriel Arocha's...

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Symbolism

sandybel20 @sandybel20 (413) • Romania 15 Apr 08

The North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic and a philosopher. They peopled the forests,rivers and sky with many superphisical and invisible beings. They also considered the earth-The Great Mother-to be an...

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Offensive to indians?

dickkell @dickkell (403) • United States 16 Mar 07

Do Indians ever get offended when Americans call Native Americans Indians?

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Indian/American Indian/Native American Mascot Debate

Casey Heinzism @dnatureofdtrain (5273) • Janesville, Wisconsin 15 Mar 07

I Have seen both sides of this debate, and the town I went to school in had changed their mascot, and team name. I have never seen any debate get so heated as this debate. I would enjoy everyone to post their reasons or why...

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Native American Cherokee Moral

COLLIS2 @COLLIS2 (479) • United States 4 Feb 07

This Native American brief moral story is a "must-read", a constant reminder of hope how we live our lives from day to day:An elder Native American Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A fight is...

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