Chief Luther Standing Bear
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart away from Nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon lead to a lack of respect for humans too.”
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Indigenous Elders Statement: “We must stop waging war against Mother Earth, and ourselves.”
INDIGENOUS ELDERS STATEMENT: “We must stop waging war against Mother Earth, and ourselves.”. “We acknowledge that all of these devastating actions originated in human beings who are living without regard for the Earth as the source of life. They have strayed from the Original Instructions by casting aside the Creator’s Natural Law. It is now critical for humanity Continue reading
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Chief Luther Standing Bear
Chief of the Oglala, Lakota (1905-1939) THE LIVING SPIRIT OF THE INDIAN “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was it ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and Continue reading

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