Obama administration moves to settle Cobell - Indian Country Today

Education is key for our survival.

The other is sobriety.

Let's send our prayers to our ancestors.

Let's leave them offerings.

"And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children’s children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not altogether powerless. "

- Chief Seattle, December, 1854
Translated by Henry A. Smith, 10th article in the series “Early Reminiscences”
Seattle Sunday Star, October 29, 1887

I wish that Dr. Paula Gunn Allen were alive to see this as well as today's President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech.

Aho.

Sandy