" are my words as the stars of "wisdom of the Indians 
excerpt from the paperback "My words are like the stars" by Sonja Probst and Ernst Probst:
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How long as we live on earth?
for Not always, only a small margin.
Jade breaking, gold is crushed,
bend quetzal feathers.
Nothing lasts on earth lives
all just a touch long.
Our time is borrowed,
fast we must leave it behind us.
AZTECS
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Earth is our mother,
nourishes us.
What we put into them,
gives us back.
BEGADI, BIG THUNDER (Wabanaki)
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A nation is not conquered so long,
as the hearts of his women are strong.
But then it is over and done -
no matter how brave warriors as
and how strong their weapons
may be.
CHEYENNE-phrase
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A tribe consists of all individuals
and is as good as any individual.
Chief Seattle (Duwamish)
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brothers, we want peace. All people want red
Peace. But where the White
get there,
because there is no peace, except
inside our mother earth.
CHIEF TECUMSEH (Shawnee)
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What is life?
It lights up like a firefly in the night
.
goes by like the breath of a buffalo
in winter.
It's like the short shadow of
scurries across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
CROWFOOT (Blackfeet)
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We were put together with all creatures
on this earth.
All these creatures,
even the smallest and the largest grass
Trees,
with our families.
We are all brothers and equal in value
on this earth. PRAYER OF THANKS
Iroquois
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It is much easier to look at the green grass
elsewhere
as at home in your garden.
DAVID SEVEN DEERS
(Halkomelem Skwah)
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are as varied
the wonders of creation,
is that this beauty will never end.
Creation is here.
you right now is in you, is it always been
The world is a miracle.
The world is magic.
The world is love.
And it is here, now.
GAYLE HIGH PINE
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in the house of Long Life, where I live.
in the house of happiness, where I live.
Beauty below me, where I live.
beauty above me, where I live.
beauty around me, where I live.
ins age traveling with him I'm alive.
on the good path I'm on it I'm
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SONG OF THE NAVAJO
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All things of creation are sacred.
Every morning is sacred,
every day is sacred.
For the light of day
was sent by Wankan Tanka,
our Father.
Remember that all creatures
this world are sacred and treated therefore want to be
accordingly.
HEHAKA SAPA, Black Elk (Sioux)
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The birds leave the earth
with their wings.
The people
can leave the earth,
not with wings,
but with their minds. There
HEHAKA SAPA, BLACK ELK (Sioux)
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Life of an Indian
there are no bad days.
Even when times are so difficult
still
every day is good, because you're
alive, every day is good.
HENRY OLD COYOTE (Crow) *
If you can your heart not be hard, if it appears you
your fellow
small kindnesses, they will answer you
me affection. They'll give
kind thoughts.
The more people you help,
more of these good ideas
will be on you.
fact that people are well disposed towards you,
is worth more than riches.
HENRY OLD COYOTE (Crow) *
With the help of the sun
created the earth.
The Earth and I are one.
The One who has the right to dispose
over the country,
is the One who created it.
Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)
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I sit in the great outdoors at the lake.
The whites want
that I work like them,
earn as much money as they buy a car
and as in nature, a lake,
do leave and angle.
I'm already in the wild, at the lake ...
CANADIAN INDIANS
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peace is not only the time between two wars
,
Peace is the law of human action.
DOCTRINE OF Iroquois
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If we do right and if
between each person and each people
justice prevails, then
we have peace.
DOCTRINE OF Iroquois
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Other religions teach ... Our
says,
shows that the heart of every human
his own way.
MOWIHAIZ, MAGPIE (Cheyenne)
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Whenever the red hunters
on his wanderings
sees something,
what is impressive and sublime,
he remains in reverent silence for a moment
.
For him it is not necessary
a seven-day to sanctify
for to him every day is sacred.
OHIYESA (Sioux)
* No man can have his mother,
can not make the earth
to his property.
OJIBWA
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If something important intends
should not be long speeches, but
come after a few words
to the point.
SAGOYEWATHA, RED JACKET (Seneca) *
want you to know that
everything you need
gifts of the earth below are
the sky above
and the four winds.
If it goes against you
these elements,
will have dire consequences
for you ...
SIOUX LEGEND OF WHITE BUFFALO
MAIDEN
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people who work merely
find no time to dream.
Only those dreams come, to wisdom.
Smohalla (Nez Perce)
* Knowledge of the spiritual relationship to the entire universe
is is irrelevant because
awareness of anything
not the reality of that thing.
That we know of the existence
of love, not
means to love.
SOTSISOWAH (Seneca) *
thinking with the heart.
SAYING THE HOPI
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You can not have the rainbow,
if it is not raining somewhere
PROVERB
of the Pueblo Indians
* The books of the white man did not satisfy me
...
The Great Spirit has given me the opportunity to study at the Academy of Natural
,
the forests and rivers,
the mountains and the wildlife.
TATANCA MANI (Stoney)
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you know that trees talk. The
talk to each other,
and they speak to you if you listen.
But the white people do not listen.
you have never found the effort worth
to listen to Indians, and I fear
they will not listen to the other voices
in nature. I myself
learned a lot from trees:
Sometimes something about the weather,
sometimes about animals, sometimes
the Great Spirit.
TATANCA MANI (Stoney)
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Look, brothers, the spring has come.
The Earth is surrounded by the sun, we will soon be
see the results of that love.
Every seed is awakened,
as each animal.
This mysterious power
we also get our lives.
TATANKA YOTANKA, SITTING BULL
(Hunkpapa)
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are the three worst evils:
stupidity, laziness and Cowardice.
Tecumseh (Shawnee)
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Anything that can give
nature of good,
it gives us in abundance.
And then the talent,
to enjoy all that ...
WABANAKI
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Why rob by force,
what can be obtained in quality
by friendship and love?
WAHUNSONACO0K (Iroquois)
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upright walking like the trees.
Live your life so much as the mountains.
Be like the gentle spring breeze.
Keep the heat of the sun
in the heart, and the Great Spirit
will always be with you.
WISDOM OF THE NAVAJO
* The earth is paradise,
is and where you sit down and your foot
holy ground.
WILFRIED PELLETIER (Ojibway)
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Holy Mother Earth,
the trees and all nature
are witnesses
your thinking and work
WINNEBAGO
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The country with its trees
was the white matter.
We make no trees, but
only use dead wood. But the White
beyond the trees from the earth even
and chop them.
Wherever the white man
the Earth touched
added, it wounds.
WINTU
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The editors
Sonja Probst
was born on 28 Jul 1975 in Mainz. From 1995 to 2003 she studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University, General and Comparative Literature, Anglistik and journalism. During her studies she wrote articles for the Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz, and worked as an assistant editor at "3sat". In July 2003 she began an internship in the editorial of the "Wiesbaden Kurier. From July 2005 she worked as a local editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz.
Ernst Probst
came on Jan 20, 1946 Neunburg vorm Wald in the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate to the world. He worked as a journalist in Nuremberg, Bayreuth and Mainz, and later as a book author and finally as a publisher as well as fossil dealers and antique dealers. He wrote the world for German-language newspapers, magazines and news agencies and has written numerous popular science books.
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