Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Native American Tales

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Starting point is 00:02:58 wonderful review. If you would like to support St. Cove, please go to Patreon, There you'll receive ad-free content as well as bonus episodes. This recording consists of relaxing stories from Native Americans. I'll be reading three stories. The first is the letter of Chief Seattle. The second is a folk tale called The Girl Who Married the Pine Tree and the third another foetail called the Discovery of the Upper World. I really hope you enjoy them.

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Starting point is 00:05:19 The great chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. The great chief also sends his words of friendship and goodwill. This is kind of him, since we know he is little need of our friendship in return. But we will consider your offer. for we know if we do not do so, the white man may come with guns and take our land. What Chief Seattle says you can count on as truly as our white brothers

Starting point is 00:05:54 can count on the return of the seasons like the stars. They do not set, how can you buy or sell the sky? The warmth of the land. The idea is strange to us. We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? We will decide in our time, out of this earth is sacred to my people.

Starting point is 00:06:32 Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing, and every humming insect is wholly in the memory. of the experience of my people that runs through the trees, carries the memories of the red-skinned man to the country of their birth. When they go to walk among the stars, never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the earth, flowers of our sisters,

Starting point is 00:07:20 the deer, the juices in the body heat of the pony, so when the chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy land, he asks much of us, the great chief, sends word he will reserve a place so that we can live comfortably to ourselves. He will be our father, and we will be his children, so we will consider your offer to buy our land. But it will not be easy. for this land is sacred to us.

Starting point is 00:08:13 This shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors. If we say you land, you must remember that it is sacred but you must teach your children that it is sacred and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people, the waters murmur is the voice of my cellul our land. You must remember and teach your children that the rivers are our brothers.

Starting point is 00:09:10 Henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next. for he is a stranger to whatever he need but his enemy and when he is conquered it he moves on leaves his father's graves behind he does not care he kidnaps the earth from his children and he does not care

Starting point is 00:09:52 his father's grave and his children's birthright he treats his mother of the earth and his brother in the sky as things to be bought plundered, soul like sheep or bright beans. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert.

Starting point is 00:10:25 In sight of your cities pains the eyes of the red man. Perhaps it is because the red man is a savage and does not understand. No place to hear the inferring of leaves in spring or the rustle of an insect's wings. Perhaps it is because I have a little. I am a savage and do not understand. The clutter only seems to insult the ears, the arguments of the

Starting point is 00:11:09 skin prefers the soft sound, darting over the face of a pond, or scented with a pinion pie precious to the red man. For all things share the same breath, the beast, the tree, does not seem to notice the air we sell you our land. You must remember that the air is precious to us. Hears its spirit with all the life it supports. His first breath also receives his last sigh. If we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred. I swear even much, and I do not understand. The man who shot them from a passing train, and I do not understand.

Starting point is 00:13:10 Smoking iron horse can be more important than the buffalo, only to stay alive. happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. Children, that the ground beneath their feet of your grandfather's respect. Your children, what we have taught our children, before the sons of the earth, and which unites one family, if all the sons of the earth, he is merely a strand in it,

Starting point is 00:14:52 whatever he does to the word he does to himself. Even the white man whose God, as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the talking wires. The spirits are. Second story is a folk tale called the girl who married into a certain mountain

Starting point is 00:18:47 grew some pines under the shade of which the pudgenies or sprites were accustomed to sport at times. Now it happened that in the neighbourhood was a lodge in which dwelt a beautiful girl and seeing the girl who loved her and said, Give me Lila now for my wife.

Starting point is 00:19:24 The girl did not like her lover. So she escaped from the lodge, evidently whether to see if she could be found. But she was nowhere, but Lila now never returned to her home. Winters who have been crossing the mountain have come to the trees at sunset, say that they have seen a beautiful girl

Starting point is 00:20:39 there in company with the handsome youth who vanished. Discovery of the upper world The militaries and all the other Indians who are not of the stock of the grandfather of nations were once not of the good spirit when he had made them meant no doubt at a proper time

Starting point is 00:21:12 to put them in enjoyment of all the good things which he had prepared for them upon earth should be within it. It was in the figures or semblances of beasts. The poor canoe cuts were rabbits. Some of the Delawares were groundhogs, others tortoises. The Tuscararas and a great many others were rattlesnakes. The Sioux were the hissing snakes. But the minotauris were always situated far towards the mountains of snow. The great cavern in which the Indians dwelt was indeed a dark and dismal region, Terraris.

Starting point is 00:22:33 It was lightened up only by the rays of the sun, which strayed through the fissures of the rock and the crevices in the roof compared with that which they enjoy now. And it was endured only because they were ignorant of the fairer or richer world, or happier state of being, showed superior wisdom which streamed through the fissures of the rock and played along the sides of the cavern

Starting point is 00:23:33 which descended the roots of the great vine. Their father could not tell them, not tell them, but he said he supposed the light came from the eyes of some great wolf as the king tortoise who sulkily drew

Starting point is 00:24:04 his head into his shell when they asked the chief rattlesnake he answered that he knew and would tell them all about it if they could promise to make peace with his tribe and on no account kill one of his descendants. He Frattlesnake then told them that there was a world above them, a beautiful world, peopled by creatures in the shape of beasts,

Starting point is 00:24:36 having a pure and sweet fruits, and those of the great Indians were surprised when the boys returned They came back singing and dancing And had grown so much And looked so different From what they did When they left the cavern

Starting point is 00:25:32 Scarcely knew them They were sleek and With so strong a step That the hollow space rang With the sound of their feet They were covered with the skins of animals And had blankets of the skins of raccoons and beavers

Starting point is 00:25:55 be described to the Indians the pleasures of the upper world, and the people were delighted with their story, as they resolved to leave their dull residence underground for the upper region. He agreed to this except the groundhog, the badger and the mole, who said as they had been put where they were, they would live and die there. The rabbit said he would live sometimes above and sometimes below. When the Indians had determined to leave their habitations underground, their militaries began men, women and children to clamber up the vine and one half of them had already reached

Starting point is 00:26:45 the surface of the earth, when a dire mishap involved the remainder in a still more desolate captivity. It was heavier than any six of her nation. Nothing would do but she must go up before some of her neighbours. Away she clumbered but her weight was so great that the vine broke with it and the opening, to which it afforded the soul means of ascending and it closed upon her the nation.

Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - Native American Tales

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