Souls...

"We believe that the spirit pervades all creation and that every creature possesses a soul in some degree,

through not necessarily a soul conscious of itself.

The tree, the waterfall, the grizzly bear,

each is an embodied Force,

and as such an object of reverence."



Ohiyesa (Dr. Charles A Eastman)
Santee Sioux, 1902
in Joseph Bruchac
_Native Wisdom_
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, p. 86