Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World

by Doug Good Feather

NEW BEGINNINGS Behold, my brothers, the spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love! Every seed is awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land. — TȞATȞÁŊKA ÍYOTAKE (SITTING BULL)

gratitude is the doorway to divine intuition, which allows us to be guided by our connection with the Creator.

THE HEALING POWERS When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunderstorm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greener and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm. — HEȞÁKA SÁPA (BLACK ELK)