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Having only recently begun to study about the Cherokee, and learn
about that part of my ancestry, I find it all beautiful and amazing.
I have some of my own writing here, that of some friends on the net,
and many I have taken from a book I purchased entitled
"American Indian Poetry", edited by George W. Cronyn. It is an anthology
of songs and chants. There are many others to come.
The first group is about love and the songs of love and passion.
The Mirrors of My Eyes poem, is the beginning of a group
of songs, poems and chants regarding the warrior.
Click on the links 'tabled' below to visit these pages.
If you start with the first one, "Talking with Grandmother", you can
simply click next on each page if you wish to see them all.
a great freedom--an intense and absorbing love for nature;
a respect for life; enriching faith in a Supreme Power;
and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and
brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.
Oglala Sioux chief
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