MITAKUYE OYASIN 


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MITAKUYE OYASIN – WE ARE ALL RELATED!! Please remember this!!

“Hand in hand, across the land, we are truly related, no matter the color of our skin, age, religion, faith, economic or job status, even species.” ~Unknown?

Funny thing about that quote. I never wrote the authors name when I wrote this last year and I can’t locate it in my files or the internet. For all I know I wrote those words based on another quote from a Lakota Indian, “The Red Road is a circle of people standing hand in hand, people in this world, people between people, in the Spirit world, star people, animal people, stone people, river people, tree people…The Sacred Hoop.” No matter. The author is not as important as the words are.

There is a phrase in the Lakota language. “Mitakuye O’yasin” It reflects the worldview of interconnectedness held by the Lakota people of…

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