MY FACE
My face is a mask I order to say
nothing
About the fragile feelings hiding in my soul.
- Glenn Lazore (Mohawk)
Look to this day,
For yesterday is already a dream
And tomorrow only a vision
But today
We lived, makes every
Yesterday a dream of
Happiness and every tomorrow
A vision of hope.
Look well
there to
This day.
- Author Unknown
COME ON THE TRAIL OF SONG
Come on the trail of song,
Leaving no footprints there,
Over the rainbow bridge
Down the mountain stair.
Come on the trail of song,
Gods of the Navajo,
Out of the sky-land
And the five worlds below.
- Eda Lou Walton
CHINOOK LORD'S PRAYER
Nesika papa klaksta mitlite kopa saghalie
Our Father Who dwells on High
Kloshe kopa nesika tumtum mika nem.
Good for our hearts Your Name.
Kloske mika tyee kopa konaway tillikum;
Good you Chief of all people;
kloshe mika tumtum kopa illahee kahkwa kopa saghalie;
Good your heart to make our country such as yours up above;
potlatch konaway sun nesika muckamuck,
give us all days our food,
pee kopet-kumtux donaway nesika mesachine,
And stop remembering all our sins we make to them,
kahkwa nesilka mamook kopa klasksta spose mamook mesachie kopa nesia;
As we suppose not their sin against us;
Mahah siah kopa nesika konaway mesachie.
Throw far away from us all evil.
Kloshe kahkwa.
Amen
When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light,
for your life and strength.
give thanks for your food
and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks,
the fault lives in yourself.
-- Tecumseh
THE LIGHTS
The Sun is a luminous shield
Borne up the blue path
By a god;
The moon is the torch
Of an old man
Who syumbles over the stars.
-- Eda Lou Walton
SUN TRACKS
the Tracks of the Sun
across the Sky
leaves its shining message.
Illuminating,
Strengthening,
Warming,
us who are here,
showing us we are not alone,
we are yet ALIVE!
and this fire . . .
Our fire . . .
Shall not die!
--Atoni
(Choctaw)
CHEROKEE PRAYER
As I walk the trail of life
in the fear of the wind and
rain,
grant O Great Spirit
that I may always walk
like a man.
THE SIOUX AT PRAYER
As quietly as little rabbit's feet,
The morning glory sun arrives to greet
The Red Man as he worships in his way.
For this he asks the Spirit every day;
"before I judge my friend. O let me wear
His moccasins for two long weeks, and share
The path that he would take in wearing them;
Then, I shall understand and not condemn.
-- Peggy Windsor Garnett
YOU ARE PART OF ME
You are part of me now
You touched me.
With your kindness and love
So enchanted.
Your soft lips are kind.
Your eyes glow with life.
I'm glad you touched me.
You're part of me now.
-- Lloyd Carl Owle
(CHEROKEE)
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