All My Relations

From time to time you will see me post a greeting or farewell like this
"All My Relations."
Mitakuye Oyasin is Lakota Sioux for "All My Relations." It is a prayer of oneness and harmony with all forms of life: other people, animals, birds, insects, trees and plants, and even rocks. It reminds us that we are connected to these other aspects of Creation, that we share a common kinship in the Hoop of Life.

I am not myself Lakota but of Irish/Scot/NezPerce/Yakima/Anglo/Carribean/German  stock.  A real gumbo soup of DNA. But I feel strongly my Native American & Celtic forebearers.

"In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tuawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent Animals to tell man that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon, man should learn....for all things speak of Tuawa."

~Chief Letakos-Lesa of the Pawnee Tribe~

With all creation, we shall be as relatives. Mitakuye Oyasin!

Respect the land! Respect the creatures!!

All My Relations....

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