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Native Americans – a wise, but unfortunately, already small nation. Christopher Columbus`s discovery of America turned out to be a sad event for the Native Americans, its indigenous people.
In the 15th century, Europeans began the colonization of two continents: North and South America, which ended with the repression and oppression of their inhabitants. Thus disappeared the Inca Empire, the Mayan civilization, the Aztec people… But their wisdom remains, which lives in proverbs to this day.
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Wise proverbs
1. The heart – our first teacher. (Cheyenne)
2. Remember: your children do not belong to you; the Creator lends them to you. (Mohawk)
3. He who stands with one foot in a canoe and the other in a boat – will fall into the river. (Tuscarora)
4. The law of man changes with human understanding. Only the laws of the spirit are unchanging. (Crow)
5. Death – it is just a change of worlds. (Duwamish)
6. You cannot wake up someone who pretends to be asleep. (Navajo)
7. All dreams are woven from one spider web. (Hopi)
8. All plants – our brothers and sisters. If you listen, we will hear how they speak. (Arapaho)
9. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in winter. It is the shadow that slides over the grass and disappears at sunset. (Blackfoot)
10. We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, but borrow it from our descendants. (Suquamish)
11. When you were born, you cried, but the world rejoiced. Live so that when you die, the world cries, but you rejoice.
12. Better to have lightning in your hand than thunder in your mouth. (Apache)
13. When a person leaves nature, his heart hardens. (Lakota)
14. Walk lightly in spring – Mother Earth is pregnant. (Kiowa)
15. Strive for wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge – from the past. Wisdom – from the future. (Lumbee)
16. If you do not see a reason to give thanks, it is your fault. (Delaware)
17. The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives. (Sioux)
18. Tell me – and I will forget. Show me – and I will not remember. Teach me – and I will understand.
19. Go to bed with dogs – wake up with fleas.
20. When you treat living beings with respect, they respect you too.
Native American wise proverbs and sayings teach us unity with nature, self-knowledge, and showing kindness and compassion to those around us.
Native Americans are very few left, in Latin America in the 1990s – early 2000s their number reached 35 – 40 million, in the USA even less – about 1.5 million, in Canada the number reaches hundreds of thousands. To at least somehow preserve their nation and uniqueness, they live in reservations.
Proverbs and sayings of wise people are also kept by other nations. From each one can learn something.
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