Let your nature be known and proclaimed.

A lazy man is apt to be envious. You are never justified in arguing. Truth does not happen, it just is. To gossip is like playing checkers with an evil spirit: you win occasionally but are more often trapped at your own game. One foe is too many and a … Continue reading →

Good and evil cannot dwell together in the same heart, so a good man ought not to go into evil company. When you begin a great work you can’t expect to finish it all at once; therefore do you and your brothers press on, and let nothing discourage you until … Continue reading →

We are afraid if we part with any more of our lands the white people will not let us keep as much as will be sufficient to bury our dead. – Doublehead, Creek Chief

Never sit while your elders stand. The white man who is our agent is so stingy that he carries a linen rag in his pocket into which to blow his nose, for fear he might blow away something of value. – Piapot, Cree Chief