Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and … - Joseph Bruchac

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If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.

Joseph Bruchac

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

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It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief. . . No one voice speaks for all voices.

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The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

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The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

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There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied.

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We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.

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