Wisdom from the Elders

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - February 9
“It can be 100 degrees in the shade one afternoon and suddenly there comes a storm with hailstones as big as golf balls, the prairie is all white and your teeth chatter. That’s good - a reminder that you are just a small particle of nature, not so [...]

Frank Fools Crow, A Holy Man

Different religions have different words for Universal Truth. The following are the words I understand best.
Elder’s Meditation of the Day - June 25
“We are called hollow bones for our people and for anyone else we can help, and we are not supposed to seek power for our personal use and honor.” –Fools Crow, LAKOTA
In [...]

Similarities

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - April 19
“We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.”
–John Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA
We all come from one Great Spirit but we are all different and unique. Nothing in the Great Creation has a twin that is identical. Even children that are twins are different. [...]

Grandfather says this

A young Lakota asked his grandfather why life had to be so difficult sometimes.
This was the old man’s reply.
Grandfather says this: “In life there is sadness as well as joy, losing as well as winning, falling as well as standing, hunger as well as plenty, bad as well as good. Grandfather does not say this [...]

White Bison Meditation

Elder’s Meditation of the Day - March 14
“The concept that we are all related is one of the basic philosophies of D/Lakota religion.”
–Dr. A.C. Ross (Ehanamani), LAKOTA
The Medicine Wheel teaches the four directions of the races, Red people, Yellow people, Black people and White people. These four directions are symbolic of all races. Everything in [...]