This We Know. All Things Are Connected

You Must Teach Your Children That The Ground Beneath Their Feet Is The Ashes Of Your Grandfathers. So That They Will Respect The Land, Tell Your Children That The Earth Is Rich With The Lives Of Our Kin. Teach Your Children What We Have Taught Our Children, That The Earth Is Our Mother. Whatever Befalls The Earth Befalls The Sons Of The Earth. If Men Spit Upon The Ground, They Spit Upon Themselves.

. . . The Deer, The Horse, The Great Eagle, These Are Our Brothers. The Rocky Crests, The Juices In The Meadows, The Body Heat Of The Pony And Man - All Belong To The Same Family. . . . The White Man Must Treat The Beasts Of This Land As His Brothers.

All Creation Is One. What We Do To One, We Do To The Entire Web Of Life.

To Us, The Ashes Of Our Ancestors Are Sacred And Their Resting Place Is Hallowed Ground.

We Know That The White Man Does Not Understand Our Ways. One Portion Of Land Is The Same To Him As The Next, For He Is A Stranger Who Comes In The Night And Takes From The Land Whatever He Needs. The Earth Is Not His Brother, But His Enemy, And When He Has Conquered It, He Moves On.