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July 22, 2025, 8:13 PM

From page 86:

"The gift of speaking is connected to the gift of hearing. It is important to speak from our listening, to speak with a quiet, humble, and open mind, whether we are communicating with people or nature."'

FROM PAGE 86:

"A basic rule of traditional (Native American) oratory is never to try to persuade or coerce other people into believing your own truth."

"Speak with strength but without arrogance."

"If your words are true, listeners will accept them. If you try to compel belief, listeners will mistrust your message."

FROM PAGE 86:

"Missionaries are only successful with the insecure."

FROM PAGE 86:

"Speak with faith in the intelligence of your audience and you will be surprised at how often they rise to meet your expectations."

FROM PAGE 86:

"Speaking is communicating with other humans, with the Great Spirit in prayer, and with the spirits of stones, plants, and animals. Some animals such as the WOLF and the WHALE, an especially skilled at communicating with one another and with human beings."

'Whales make the lowest-pitched yet loudest sounds of any animal. A Wolf howl can be heard six miles away."

"Blue Whale song is so loud (155 decibels) that it is as if you were standing three feet from a jet engine at full power."

"The acoustical properties of water allow whales to communicate across the oceans and marine biologists to track them from a distance of one thousand miles."

FROM PAGE 86:

"A person who has a close spiritual affinity with the WOLF or orca has the power to telepathically contact people who are very far away, even in other continents."

"The WOLF carries a person's thoughts through the forest, becomes an orca in the sea, and then transform one into the other; they are in Jay Miller's words, 'dual aspects of the same supernatural being." (See endnote #20, page 357: Miller, Tsimshian Culture, page 174).

July 24, 2025, 5:30 PM

From page 89:

"Many Native American traditions say that sound is a creative force. When a thing is named, it is being EVOKED."

July 22, 2025, 8:43 PM

Questions:

What is evocation?

What is vocation?

What is vacate?

What is vacation?

What is eviction?

What is diction?

What is subjection?

From page 89:

"To say WIND is to call on the power of the Wind. This is especially true of indigenous languages because they are direct expressions of the LAND from which they arose. Words are carried by sacred breath. They have power and must always be spoken with care. Hurtful thoughts and words may have harmful consequences. Loving words can heal."

EDITOR'S NOTE #2:

I believe the WIND is the SACRED BREATH OF GOD AND GODDESS. RK.

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