Sandhill Crane Dance
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The Four Corners
We sing to the four directions
and honor the Earth and Sky
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Sky Woman
"Listen to the song of the sky woman.
She who fell to earth.
She sings to turtle who offered his back
as a place for the world to grow."
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Beneath the Evergrowing Tree
Sing a song of Peace
to all the children of the earth
beneath the Great White Pine
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We Give Thanks
We give greetings and thanks for all that has been given us.
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Dance
of the Thunder Spirits
My horses, ........they are coming
Dancing, they are coming
All over the universe they come.
They will dance, may you behold them.
- Black Elk
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The
Sacred Sisters
Corn, Beans & Squash
Teach us to live in harmony with one another.
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Woodland Spirits
Woodland Spirits,
children of the Earth and Sky
sing of Peace
beneath the Great White Pine
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Song
of the Oak
The moon waxes and wanes
leaves bud, grow and fall again
and the dance of life continues…
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Dance
of the Turtles
It is said that it was a little Turtle who climbed into the
sky and gathered the
lightning into a great ball, which became the sun, and a smaller
ball
which became the moon, and so there was a light in the world.
—Iroquois tradition |
Evergreen
"Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother and
are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their
children?"
- Black Elk. |
Homelands
Eagle is our messenger to the Creator and Symbol of the Great
Peace of the Iroquois Nation.
We honor him, he who flies the highest.
Eagle remembers and always longs for the Homelands.
Half-remembered, waiting in the past. |
