"The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the native American shared this elemental ethic. The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures...During the long Indian tenure the land remained undefiled save for scars no deeper than the scratches of cornfield clearings."~Stewart Lee Udall

honor the Earth

life is a sacred event....

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Henry David Thoreau

"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."~Chief Seattle

What is life?

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."~Crowfoot

Sacred Hero

"A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky."~Crazy Horse...Sacred Hero.

"Only After the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."-Native Wisdom

Im gonna share with you a short video, a little insight on how the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. sad situation how the top .01 percent makes an average of $27 million per household, as the average income of the bottom 90 percent makes an average of $32,000.
Those profits and salaries for the .01 percent come at the expense of foreclosed homes, lost jobs, and skyrocketing student debts coupled with diminishing prospects of employment. Add to that list, the personal and community impacts of oil spills, polluting coal plants, and mining desasters. Again, these impacts are hitting hardest on those who have the least. just expressing some deep frustration with the financial system. End Wall Street corruption.

What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.-Yuri Gagarin

"Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature's sources never fail."-John Muir 

Simplicity

The day i started realizing and understanding  at such a young age, i was deeply touched and facinated by my culture and way of life. just from listening (at times i was a bit nosey too lol)  to the teachings of my elders, shamans, medicine man, parents, the way they talked about how things were so much simpler back when they were kids, i was so interested. the way they talked bout true Indian bravery, folk wisdom and deep understanding of nature and their relation to it in the ecology of things.
I learning at such a young age, i was deeply fascinated with their deep relation to nature, the earth and the spirit world. it seems like there was a basic and common philosophy of nature and spirit between the peoples. the first principle is that we are embedded in a sacred circle of life and we resonate with it. we have responsibility towards life around us because in this circle of life, we affect everything and everything affects us. there is a deep rooted interdependence in the existence of things, a concept  i believe that echoed in the Buddhist beliefs and modern scientific thought. they built there homes, they hunted, and farmed. only taking what they needed from the earth and nature, nothing more. that was the simple way of life.
A very long time has passed from their youth to now, and some of the unspoiled cultural life have been completely embellished by the frenetic spread of the infinite short sightedness and destructive greed of Man's collective ego. i say this on behalf of many other tribes, sadly some have been completely wiped of the map.
Politics, Slave society, capitalism, consumerism, climate change, global warming, some things  i find deeply saddening!  we live in a fucked up generation. its near impossible to live the simple life my ancestors did. but the solutions are in our hands, we just have to have the determination to make it happen. we can start today, each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive, we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero, and taking only what is needed from the Earth. Honor the Earth. i share with you my native wisdom,   my great ancestors lived without pain, suffering and always giving back to the Earth. they lived simple.