Cahotska Isnala , Melanie Masada

My Favorite Photo Is Above. Powerful, Beautiful, Simple, and Elegant. As I look at this picture I feel this is a woman I would have loved to have known.

Founder and owner of the group Voice Verified The Corner on Yahoo. A little group, replacing Ladies Corner for women and couples into fun forms of assorted wrestling.

Other interest include, Wrestling, Norwegian Elkhounds, Druidism, Irish, Maryland, Native American issues,Cleveland Metro, Celtic, Outer Banks, Santeria, and Runes. .

As I'm half Irish and half Lakhota I have a wide range of interests. If you take time to read my blog you'll see that after a good bit of research my Lakhota name is Ciya Sonhapana Sunkmanitu Cisnikala which literally means Crying Pup wolf Loud /Little Crying Wolf Pup

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realise their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realise that at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us."~Black Elk, Oglala

Tell your people that since the Great father promised that we should never be removed, we have been moved five times. I think you had better put the Indians on wheels and you can run them about wherever you wish." White Bull .

"BEING INDIAN IS...seeing other Indians in search for an Indian identity. " Steven Two Hawk.

"The reason Wakan Tanka does not make two birds or animals or human beings exactly alike is because each is placed here by Wakan Tanka to be an individual and to rely on itself." Shooter, Teton .

"We are all poor because we are honest."Red Dog, Oglala, Lakhota .

"Children are our greatest treasure. The new generation coming up. We won't disappear. We shall live!"Pete Catches, Oglala, Lakhota .

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. Red Cloud .

"One does not sell the land people walk on." ... Crazy Horse, Sept. 23, 1875.

"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows. We are poor..but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die...we die defending our rights." Red Cloud(Makhpiya-luta) , April, 1870.

"How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." Black Hawk, Sauk.

"From Wakan-Tanka, the Great Mystery, comes all power. It is from Wakan-Tanka that the holy man has wisdom and the power to heal and make holy charms. Man knows that all healing plants are given by Wakan-Tanka, therefore they are holy. So too is the buffalo holy, because it is the gift of Wakan-Tanka." Flat-Iron (Maza Blaska) Oglala Sioux Chief.

"You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves." Black Elk Oglala Sioux Holy Man 1863-1950.

"As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized."~Ohiyesa, Santee Sioux~.

"It does not require many words to speak the truth." ~Chief Joseph, Nez Perce~ .

" It does not matter where his body lies; there the grass is growing... but where his Spirit lies, that would be a good place to be.~ Black Elk speaks of the deceased Crazy Horse~.

"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heapen and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A peoples dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. . . .the nations hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." ~Black Elk, Lakota~

"We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home. You had yours. We did not interfere with you. The Great Spirit gave us plenty of land to live on, and buffalo, deer, antelope and other game. But you have come here, you are taking my land from me, you are killing off our game, so it is hard for us to live. Now, you tell us to work for a living, but the Great Spirit did not make us to work, but to live by hunting. You white men can work if you want to. We do not interfere with you, and again you say why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them."~Tashanka Witko "Chief Crazy Horse", Oglala~

"Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. "Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'" ~Tecumseh, Shawnee~

"When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. ... the White people pay no attention. ...How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? ... everywhere the White man has touched it, it is sore."~Wintu Woman, 19th Century~

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."~Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator~

"Whoever betrayed the cause, or gave up the fight, or suffered loss of spirit, it was seldon the People. We are the People."~I.R.A. Handbook ~

"The road to freedom is paved with suffering, hardships and torture; carry on my gallant and brave comrades until that certain day. "~Tom Williams, I.R.A. ~

"Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it. ~Conor Cruise O'Brien~

"You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed."~Pádraig Pearse~

"There is nothing more dangerous than an oppressed people who acquire the first weapons of education and organisation."~Bernadette Devlin McAliskey~

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;it must be demanded by the oppressed."~Martin Luther King Jr~

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."~Martin Luther King Jr~

"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear your friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exist because of their silent consent"~Bruno Jasienski~

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."~Martin Luther King Jr~

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."~Albert Einstein~

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."~Dante Alighieri~

"Only when the last tree is cut; only when the last river is polluted; only when the last fish is caught; only then will they realise that you cannot eat money."~Cree Indian Proverb~

"All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases."~Chief Joseph, Nez Perce~

"Something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there."~Black Elk, speaking of the Wounded Knee Massacre~

"I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization."~Chief Luther Standing Bear - Lakota Sioux~

"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too."~Chief Luther Standing Bear - Lakota Sioux~

"When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them."~Chief Seattle~

"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place."~Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux~

"Brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed, as you can all read the Book?"~Sogoyewapha, "Red Jacket", Senaca~

"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."~Chief Aupumut (1725), Mohican~

"We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees."~Qwatsinas,Nuxalk Nation~

"A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan."~Zitkala-Sa~

"Grandfather, I ask you to Bless the white man, He needs your wisdom, your guidance. He has tried for so long to destroy my people And only feels comfortable when given power. Bless them with wisdom. Show them the peace we understand. Teach them humility For I feel they will destroy themselves and all our children As they have done for so long with Mother Earth. I plead, I cry. After all They are my brothers and sisters."~Sandy Kewenhaptewa, Hopi~

"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money."~Cree Prophecy~

"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society."~John (Fire) Lame Deer, Lakhota~