A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations, Volume 1The author of the nationally beloved inspirational column Think on These Things offers a book of daily meditations drawn from her own rich Cherokee heritage and that of other tribes. Joyce Sequichie Hifler presents readings for each day of the year from Una la ta nee'--the cold Month, January-- to U Ski' Ya, the Snow Month of December. Each provides insights expressed both in English and in Cherokee, and germs of Native wisdom recorded in the words of Native speakers. This little treasury is for readers of all fauths, and for those seeking faith. |
Common terms and phrases
beautiful begin better BLACK ELK BLACK HAWK Cherokee believes Cherokee calls CHIEF JOHN ROSS CHIEF JOSEPH clouds color comes comfort earth emotions everything eyes fear feel flowers forgive fragrance friends GERONIMO give hand happen happy heal hear heart Holy hour hurt important Indian keep KEOKUK killdeer listen lives look lose MANGAS COLORADAS meadows means mind move nature negative never ourselves oxeye daisies path peace person quiet reason remember SATANK SEATTLE seems SEQUICHIE sing SITTING BULL someone sometimes songs sound speak Spirit SPOTTED TAIL STANDING BEAR stir stop strength sunlight talk tears tell TEN BEARS things thought touch Trail of Tears tree Tsalagi turn understand velvet hour vision voices wait Wakan Tanka walk wind wisdom woods words WOVOKA wrong
Popular passages
Page 25 - I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick : but I will destroy the fat and the strong ; I will feed them with judgment.
Page 241 - We have had some experience of it — several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good...
Page 115 - Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam. Where the deer and the antelope play; Where seldom Is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day. CHORUS Home, home on the range...
Page 323 - Brother! You say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agree, as you can all read the book?
Page 18 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 242 - What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.