TsiyaGeyaWillis

April 5


Think for yourself. Stop living by tradi-
tion that promises you the moon and gives you a
rock to carry.
Think things through--if one way looks
easier than another, take the bolder way. Don't
think what it is going to get you but what it is going
to build in you. Some things feed the body and
some the spirit. Go with the spirit--it already
knows what you need to know.


Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the
last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty,
and the graves of our fathers.
TECUMSEH
SHAWNEE
1808

By: Joyce Sequichie Hifler


Men must be born
and reborn to belong.
-LUTHER STANDING BEAR,
OGLALA SIOUX, 1868-1937


A Native to Know

Poet and novelist Sherman Alexie, born
in 1966 and brought up on a Spokane
Indian Reservation, has won several
awards for his writing, including the
National Endowment for the Arts Poetry
Fellowship in 1992. With more than 200
published poems and stories, he is best
known for the book The Lone Ranger
and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993).


As we plunge ahead to build empires
and race for supremacy we should stop
and listen to [the female] song of life. For
without the female there is no life."
-Oren R. Lyons, Spokesman
Traditional Circle of Elders


Women are created with the ability to pro-
duce life. Women have a special tie to the
Earth Mother. They have something in com-
mon. They are the source of life. The Earth
Mother gives songs to the Woman to sing.
These songs are about life, about beauty, about
children, about love, about family, about
strength, about caring, about nurturing, about
forgiveness, about God. The World needs to
pay attention and listen to Her. She knows.