S a m p l e
I s s u e
P a g e
N a t i v e
T i m e
In Cherokee families children are taught to value their intuition,
to believe that dreams are often messages from the spirit world;
in modern American academia, we are told that dreams are just
our psyche trying to work things out. The non-Native way of
thinking appears to be linear but the Native all things are connected and there are not straight lines. Not even time is a straight
line. We are all eternal beings and we existed before time and
will exist after we leave our bodies. In the Cherokee language
there is no word for good-bye because it is foreign to the fundamentals of the culture. No one can die because all are spirits and
a spirit cannot cease to be.
P h o t o
o f
t h e
w e e k
Catch a feather
In the wind
A song in the grass
Open you heart
And laugh.
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