Thomas Yellowtail Quotes

• Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Civilization, Understanding, Sacred

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.188, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Prayer is the best answer to all of the trials that face us, because without prayer, even if we succeed in accomplishing some great goal in the eyes of men, we have failed in our sacred responsibilities, and thus we have failed in what is truly important.

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  Prayer, Eye, Responsibility

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• To be able to greet the sun with the sounds from all of Nature is a great blessing, and it helps us to remember Who is the real provider of all of our benefits.

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  Real, Blessing, Sound

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.34, University of Oklahoma Press

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• The manner with which we walk through life is each man's most important responsibility, and we should remember this with every new sunrise.

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  Responsibility, Men, Sunrise

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.76, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Spiritual matters are difficult to explain
  because you must live with them in order
  to fully understand them.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Spiritual, Order, Matter

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.10, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong.

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  Sacred, Knows

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.28, University of Oklahoma Press

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• It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success
  is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in
  Creation and his relationship to all things.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Skills, Hunters, Awareness

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.38, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide.

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  Important, Sacred, Today

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.76, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize.

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  Humility, Realizing, Virtue

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.170, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of
  God.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Thinking, Each Day, Praying

  Michael Oren Fitzgerald, Thomas Yellowtail (2003). “Indian Spirit”, p.57, World Wisdom, Inc

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• In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.

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  Spiritual, Loss, Men

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.121, University of Oklahoma Press

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• People think other things are more
  important than prayer, but they are
  mistaken.

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  Prayer, Thinking, People

  Michael Oren Fitzgerald, Thomas Yellowtail (2003). “Indian Spirit”, p.57, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.

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  Men, Sacred, Knows

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.9, University of Oklahoma Press

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• A vision could put you on a path you don't want to follow.

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  Vision, Want, Path

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• Each person's prayers can help everyone.

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  Prayer, Helping, Persons

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.197, University of Oklahoma Press

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• But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.

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  Heart, Purpose, Sacred

  Thomas Yellowtail (2007). “Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way”, p.72, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of the old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Spiritual, Taken, Book

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• You must be prepared and know the
  reason why you dance.

  Thomas Yellowtail

  Reason Why, Be Prepared, Knows

  Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.179, University of Oklahoma Press

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