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... ice and wind , and the Pays d'en Haut was silent , for there were no people to hear , " he boomed , his voice rising ... Laurentide Ice Sheet . " " In Ojibwe stories , " Earth Walks said , coming forward to stand beside me , " the ...
... ice and wind , and the Pays d'en Haut was silent , for there were no people to hear , " he boomed , his voice rising ... Laurentide Ice Sheet . " " In Ojibwe stories , " Earth Walks said , coming forward to stand beside me , " the ...
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... Laurentide Ice Sheet did . " A glacier , one of continental proportions , is really nothing more than a great mass of ice on land that has the ability to move under its own weight , much like pancake batter spreads out when poured onto ...
... Laurentide Ice Sheet did . " A glacier , one of continental proportions , is really nothing more than a great mass of ice on land that has the ability to move under its own weight , much like pancake batter spreads out when poured onto ...
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Contents
| 11 | |
PEOPLE OF THE PAYS DEN HAUT | 33 |
EARTH ROOTS | 61 |
THE WOLFS HEAD | 81 |
MAKERS OF THE MAGIC SMOKE | 137 |
THE TALKING SKY | 167 |
THE NEVERENDING CIRCLE | 197 |
Bibliography | 203 |
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Page 80 - The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.
Page 96 - It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Page 192 - You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his hands, he looks in on me Busy outdoors by lantern-light with something I should have done by daylight, and indeed, After the ground is frozen, I should have done Before it froze, and a gust flings a handful Of waste leaves at my smoky lantern chimney To make fun of my way of doing things, Or else fun of Orion's having caught me.
Page 95 - I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.
Page 64 - With this sacred pipe you will walk upon the Earth; for the Earth is your Grandmother and Mother, and She is sacred. Every step that is taken upon Her should be as a prayer. The bowl of this pipe is of red stone; it is the Earth. Carved in the stone and facing the center is this buffalo calf who represents all the four leggeds who live upon your Mother.
Page 167 - Newton's third law of motion- that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Page 165 - A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Page 4 - Tecumseh, with great indignity of expression, "the sun is my father, and the earth is my mother; and on her bosom I will repose;" and immediately seated himself, in the Indian manner, upon the ground.* The fight at Tippecanoe followed soon after.
Page 13 - I blow my breath," said the old man, "and the streams stand still. The water becomes stiff and hard as clear stone." "I breathe," said the young man, "and flowers spring up all over the plains." "I shake my locks," retorted the old man, "and snow covers the land.