All quotes from Jamie and Twylah's book
In ancient times, the main purpose of nightly council fires was to learn how to listen. The truths of how to live in harmony were kept alive by wise storytellers who would relate Tribal wisdom through Medicine Stories.... It was the responsibility of the listeners to relate and apply those truths to their personal lives in a manner that would make them grow.
The Allies and
Totems of nature have been great teachers to Native Americans throughout
time. The Stone Tribe, being the eldest
of all who have lived on our Earth Mother, are the Record Keepers.... The Stone
Nation has long reminded our people of the validity of all Tribes of
Earth. All five races of humankind, the
Creature-Beings, the Plant Tribe, the Spirits of the Sky Nation, the
Creepy-Crawlers, and the Finned-Ones that swim the seas comprise All Our
Relations.
[Let] go of our
spiritual arrogance in order to understand the language of all other
life-forms.
We Two-Leggeds were
preceded by our Ancestors, and they were preceded by the Creature-beings and
Plant People, who were preceded by the Stone Tribe.
From other Stone
people, who have fallen from the Great Star Nation, we have learned much of
other galaxies.
There
are three kinds of work among the Little People. Some are hunters, finding lost objects. Some are stone throwers, assisting the Stone
People in changing location. The others
look after the seeds.
These
human children of Earth have bodies that stand upright in order to support
their minds, keeping their thoughts above their bodies as a reminder that
thoughts are the first act of manifesting reality.
