byElizabeth Woody
- 31/32 Warm Springs - Wasco - Yakama - Pit River - Navajo
1/32 Other Tribal Roll number 1553
THIRTY-SECOND PARTS OF A HUMAN BEING
SUN MOON EVENING STAR AT DAWN CLOUDS RAINBOW CEDARLANGUAGE COLORS AND SACRIFICE LOVE THE GREAT FLOOD
THE TORTOISE CARRIES THE PARROT HUMMINGBIRD TRILLIUM
THE CROW RAVEN COYOTE THE CONDOR JAGUAR GRIZZLY
TIMBER WOLF SIDEWINDER THE BAT CORN TOBACCO SAGE
MUSIC DEATH CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE SPIDERWEB RESURRECTED PROPHETS
RECURRENT POWER OF CREATION IS FUELED BY SONG
Like the lava, we have always been indomitable in flowing
purposes. A perpetuity of Ne-shy-Chus means we are rooted
in ancestral domain and are Free, with any other power
reserved in the truce of treaty, 1855, or any other time.
We kept peace. Preserved and existed through our Songs,
Dances, Longhouses, and the noninterruption of giving Thanks
and observances of the Natural laws of Creating by the Land
itself. The Nusoox are as inseparable from the flow of these
cycles. Our Sovereignty is permeated, in its possession
of our individual rights, by acknowledgement of good
for the whole and this includes the freedom
of the Creator in these teachings
given to and practiced by The People. We are watched over
by the mountains, not Man, not Monarchy,
or any other manifestations
of intimidation by misguided delusions of supremacy
over the Land or beings animate or inanimate.
From Luminaries of the Humble, University of Arizona Press.