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"It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways."
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"Our spirit is universal, all powerful, and limitless. Why do we put societal boundaries around us? They are not boundless."

"Thou, my slave,As thou report'st thyself, was then her servant,And for thou wast a spirit too delicateTo act her earthy and abhorred commands,Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,By help of her more potent ministersAnd in her most unmitigable rage,Into a cloven pine, within which riftImprisoned thou didst painfully remainA dozen years; within which space she diedAnd left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groansAs fast as mill wheels strike."

"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."
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"In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles."

"Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us."

"When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us."

"It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth."

"And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing."

"To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides."
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