hunt bison in a painting by George Catlin
"The original conception of Native Americans is exempt from the categories and European settings, completely missing the idea of \u200b\u200bGod Lord everything above and holds mysterious and fearsome object of love: the Wakan Tanka Sioux is just a huge force and solemn. Still less present among the Indians was the Epicurean atheism the libertines of the seventeenth century Europeans to meet in illusions them. For a Sioux the other is not in the first place, man. locked in a community of people humanely in dispute would be suffocating for him. The Sioux, wandering in the thick of a forest, each animal perceives as his next winking between the leaves, but every tree, flower, bud, lichen, fungus, pay attention to each and greetings. Note the shape of the earth like an intellectual and passionate, which imposed the mysterious mountains offer knowledge to those who gather for stopovers between the nests of eagles and valleys to the lavish living waters. Finally, the Indians feel like its big brother, terrible and auspicious, the bird of thunder, lightning and wind together. In the sky reads the oracular speech of the stars that guide him in the night and announce events, talking to the intimate. The Indians live well together, identified with what, hugging him or hurting him, surrounds him. "
(Elémire Zolla - taken from: The cloud frame )
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