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Heart, mind, body and spirit

"Tanka" is used in reference to delivering your best with all your heart, mind, body and spirit. It is the choices that you make and the actions that you take to be who you are. Whether you're Native, white, black, yellow or brown, it is your ability to overcome, to extend a helping hand for those in need, to defeat racism, to protect our Mother Earth, and to love all others on our planet.

It is your ability to acknowledge "Mitakuye Oyasin" -- we are all related.

 

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Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds
Whose breath gives life to the world, hear me
I come to you as one of your many children
I am small and weak
I need your strength and wisdom

May I walk in beauty
Make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
And my ears sharp to your voice.
Make me wise so that I may know the things you have taught your children.

The lessons you have written in every leaf and rock
Make me strong--------!
Not to be superior to my brothers, but to fight my greatest enemy....myself

Make me ever ready to come to you with straight eyes,
So that when life fades as the fading sunset,
May my spirit come to you without shame.

Translated by Chief Yellow Lark - 1887

 

 

 

American Indians
First People is a child friendly site about American Indians and members of the First Nations. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, free clipart, Pueblo pottery, American Indian jewelry, Native American Flutes and more.

 

 

Opened in 1991, St. Joseph's museum in Chamberlain, South Dakota, boasts a proud collection of traditional items, art, research material and more. As an outreach program of St. Joseph's, the museum operates entirely on donations. Admission is free; tours are offered, and visitors are welcome year-round!  Visitors benefit from a mini-theater, English-Lakota descriptions, a research/archive library and the stunning Collector’s Gallery, where local artists display and sell their work.

 

Our primary goal at the Southwest Indian Foundation is to lessen the poverty and unemployment among the Native Americans of the Southwest, specifically members of the Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, Laguna, Acoma, and Apache tribes. Through self-help initiatives and charitable donations, we are attempting to restore dignity and self-reliance to these native peoples. 

 

Since 1993, Native American Heritage Association worked with Lakota (Sioux) Reservations strengthening the Native
American Communities & families one member at a time. The challenges we face are difficult because on the Reservations
unemployment rates are at 70%, 70% have no transportation, the average life expectancy is 45 years of age, infant mortality is 10 times the national average and 31% of Native American children under the age of 4 are obese because of lack of proper nutrition.
 

 

 
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Our purpose is to help preserve the Lakota heritage & language, and to offer some tools for your personal growth, regardless of the path you have chosen. May you have a good journey!

Recipes and information on Native American food. This is the food and recipes of food eaten pre-invasion up to and including current popular Native American food. 

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