Native American Man Quotes

“So how was the Indian born? He was born from the sunrise and from the woman. This woman at first was all alone on this earth after it had been created. This woman was beautiful and no man had touched her. Then she met a spirit, a power from the moon, the shadow of the generation. It worked upon her so that she began to bleed in woman nature for the first time. And she used yellow bark and rabbit skin to put between her legs to contain the flow. And after she had encountered this power and woman’s nature cycle had started within her, she went to sleep. When she got up the next morning she had an urge to make water. She took that yellow bark and rabbit skin from between her thighs and squatted and this little drop of moon blood fell to the earth. Mashtinchala, the rabbit, came upon that little clot of blood and started playing with it, kicking it into life. Rabbit did this with the help of Takuskanskan, the mysterious moving power that quickens the fruit in the womb and gives motion to all living things. And being kicked around and around, the little blob of blood took shape, forming a little gut. The rabbit played with it some more, and the blob began to grow tiny arms and legs. The rabbit nudged it some more, and suddenly it had eyes and a heart. In this way the blood clot began to move by itself and grew into We Ota Wichasha, the first man.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman