"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
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