tsalagi Archives

17 Mar 2019

Intermarriages of the Tsalagi before and after the Removal

Intermarriages of the Tsalagi, Creek, European Settlers, Africans, Catawba, Yuchi, Shawnee and Melungeon in the Southeast before and after the Removal By Aziza Braithwaite Bey, Ph.D. The League of Five Nations consisted of the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga, the Tuscarora joined the Five Nations in 1722 forming The Iroquois Confederacy of Six Nations and from ancient times, the … Read More

Quotations

Ceremony is the opportunity to say thank you. It is the gift of our life force and our thought to explore the potential. Ceremony honors the cycles of the moon, the sun, and even more subtle cycles that connect our solar system with other galaxies and the very heart of this and all universes.

Learning Cherokee Ways

Each of us is a battery, a resonator, a musical instrument, and we are setting waves of many patterns and many possible futures in the sea of life. Let us be discriminating in the futures that we shape forth. (p. 157)

Voices of Our Ancestors

As human beings we have a significant responsibility in this time. It is to relate to those patterns in ourselves that lead to fear, doubt, and aggression in such a way that they are transmuted. You never deny what is, but simply acknowledge, “Oh, that feeling is there.” Is it really you? No, it is feeling arising from emotion. Generate the antidote.

Voices of our Ancestors

Often as people come closer and closer to understanding their true nature, they find themselves distracted and annoyed by things, or deep fears come up that they had not known were there. When these fears and other uncertainties of the mind arise, it is a great opportunity to see them as they are, just thought patterns, and have no attachment to them. (p. 258)

Voices of Our Ancestors

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