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“
Abe held a palmful of loose-leaf tobacco. He called it semaa—SAY-mah—and asked if I'd like to offer some to give thanks for my dad. I held out my hand. He nudged my other hand.
"Left hand," he said. "Closer to your heart.
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― Sisters in the Wind
― Sisters in the Wind
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The Lakota...close, open, and often punctuate their prayers with the word Metakuyeayasi, a generally accepted translation of which is "all relations"...human relations are, of course, included. But, in the same sense, so are the four legged animals, the animals which crawl and swim and fly, the plants, the mountains, lakes, plains, rivers, the sky and sun, stars, moon, the four directions...in short, everything. Everything in the universe is related within the tradition of Lakota spirituality;
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