Luther Standing Bear Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: d. February 19, 1939
Birthday: d. February 19
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.
source: Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press
topic: Healing, Feet, Air, Indian, Spiritual Indian, Lakota, Mothering, American Indian, Great Native American, Great Spirit, Native American Dream, Native American Earth, Native American Indian, Native American Spiritual, Native American Wisdom, Native Wisdom, Bare Feet
