yelenska’s Reviews > Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power > Status Update

"Stirrup told me he did not like fighting because it was a temporary answer for anything and made a real peace even harder to obtain."

author: "while im using the word 'patient,' he never used it. He referred to those who came to him as a person, or more preferably by name. He intuitively knew that calling someone a patient did something negative to their sense of personal worth, and that it impaired the strong relationship between his patients and himself, which he considered essential to success." YEP. PUTS DISTANCE AND DISTRUST, LIKE A CONTRACT.

"My ppl blame the white man for all their troubles. This is mostly true but that doesn't excuse our willingness to accept it and even make it worse. We can quit the dole system, we can quit bickering and stand together any time we want to. Indians everywhere ruin everything by failing to stand together. They all want to be the chief, the one who runs everything. So we end up with nothing." 👏

"What the white ppl often call Indian origin myths were actually stories that were built upon a foundation of historical truth. In fact, each one had begun as an ancient historical event. He knew that most of the stories were embellished and reshaped as they were told and retold over the centuries, but believed that the historical core always remained, that people were not left on their own to develop their origin st

A recurring theme among diff Native tribes: the holy/medicine men all speak of an electricity-like feeling when their God channels through their bodies: "like energy or electricity when it is moving in and through us. But spiritual power is really a distinctive kind of knowledge that is like the key that opens the door or the switch that starts the energy moving." They must be like a hole, hollow bone or a tube.

"I heard a song on the radio that included the words 'I did it my way.' This is nothing to be proud of, and the person who follows that way of life can not be happy for very long. Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity. Perfect unity is when you put other ppl ahead of yourself. Then when they put you ahead of themselves, there is perfect love - perfect unity."

How I wish I could have met such a person!