Son of a Medicine Man

"It was even then only after the heyoka ceremony in which I performed my dog vision, that I had the power to practice as a medicine man, curing sick people; and many I cured with the power that came through me."
~Black Elk

War Paint

"I was painted red all over with black lightning on my limbs. I wore a black mask, and across my forehead a single eagle feather hung."
~Black Elk

The Weaver

“You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.”
~Martha Graham

Native Princess

Call to me, woman in war paint,
before your hypnotizing fragrance fades....
~OCTOGENARIAN

Spirited Bond

"You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer."
~Black Elk

Spirit of Running Horse

"No heaven can heaven be, if my horse isn't there to welcome me."

~Author Unknown

Native American Children

"Children were encouraged to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots, they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success."
~Mourning Dove Salish

Little Feather
"Traditional American Indian names are often spiritually divined, unique to each individual, and/or related to an accomplishment, rite of passage, dream, or life event."

~http://www.native-languages.org/baby.htm

Facing the Council

"Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations."
~Luther Standing Bear Oglala Sioux

Dreamcatcher

"If you believe in the great spirit, the web will catch your good ideas -- and the bad ones will go through the hole."