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From page 88:
"Native people believe that knowledge should be used to serve others; then it becomes wisdom."
Book: "No Word for Time" by Algonquin Evan T. Pritchard (on page 195): "Wisdom, UNKEEDASEE WACH/n: Micmac, means "The state of thinking big thoughts."
"It means you see the greater scope of things, how it all falls together, how we are all linked together in a very wode hoop."
"Service is altruism, free of pre-occupation with oneself and thus neither self-serving nor self-sacrificing."
self-serving "elevates the ego" and asks "What's in it for me?"
self sacrificing "demeans the ego" says "let me help you" but inwardly thinks: "My own needs are unimportant."
"We serve because we realize that our lives and destinies are bound up with others." (This sounds like WWG1WGA: editors note.)
From page 88:
"Service means generosity."
From page 89:
"Generosity strengthens the web of connection and kinship."
"In 1885, the Canadian government outlawed the Potlatch at the behest of missionaries and Indian Agents. In 1879, Canadian Indian Commissioner G.M.Sproat wrote: 'It is not possible that Indians can acquire proprty, or become industrious with any good result, while under the influence of this (Potlatch) mania." (see endnote #24, page 358)
From page 358 endnote: From: Ralph K. Andrist, The Long Death, New York: Macmillan, 1964, page 134.
The United States of America committed FRAUD against Native Americans, as per the "GENERAL ALLOTMENT ACT" a FEDERAL LAW since February 8, 1887: "Indian land was divided into individual allotments, with any unassigned land available to whites. Through a combination of legal maneuvering, swindling, and fraud by white settlers and government officials, however, most Native Americans never received their land parcels. Whites began a practice of adopting orphaned Indian children in order to receive land allotments. Horses and farm animals were given title to parcels that became the property of their white owners. Within twenty years of the Allotment Act, the Cherokee, like other Indian Nations, had lost more than 90% of their land."
"Federal Policy only underscored the tremenous differences in values between white and Indian (Native American) people."
I noted a quote from Lakota Chief Red Cloud (1820-1909), who said, I believe in sarcasm: "You must begin anew and put away the wisdom of your fathers. You must lay up food and forget the hungry. When your house is built, our storeroom filled, then look around for a neighbor whom you can take advantage of and seize all he has."
From: Ralph K. Andrist, The Long Death, New York: Macmillan, 1964, page 134.
From page 89:
Caribou Inuk (singular form of Inuit):
"If a sick person is to have any hope of being cured, he must own nothing but his breath." (see endnote #25, page 358).
Above sounds like somebody (possibly Danish Explorer and author, Knud Rasmussen in Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos (Copenhagen: Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-1924, no. 2; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1976, page 49) said to the Eskimos: We won't help you get better unless you are flat broke and own nothing. I wish I could ask Ewaranon his opinion on my thoughts on this. I wonder if the Eskimos could read the language that this was written in or if the attribution is even genuine.
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