Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe

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Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe ((one group NATIVE Americans))

The Seven Teachings are the gifts of the Seven Grandfathers. They are: Honesty, Love, Courage, Truth, Wisdom, Humility, and Respect. Each teaching is represented by an animal. Following the teachings leads a person to well being. ~ Gary Raven 2000.

Throughout the story, Omakayas and the other characters learn many lessons.

To cherish knowledge is to know WISDOM. Symbolized by the beaver.
To know LOVE is to know peace. You must love yourself in order to love another. Symbolized by the eagle.
To honor all of the Creation is to have RESPECT. Symbolized by the buffalo
BRAVERY is to face the foe with integrity. The bear symbolizes the moral courage to do the right thing.
HONESTY in facing a situation is to be brave. Symbolized by Sasquatch or Wilderness Man.
HUMILITY is to think things through carefully and to know your place. Symbolized by the wolf.
TRUTH is to know all of these things. Symbolized by the turtle.


From the farewell address of George Washington

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it

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be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield. *(this paragraph is complete, only the underline is mine)


The following from President Eisenhower's farewell address, warning of the military- industrial-complex

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.


Abe Lincoln did not have a chance to have a farewell address. This little prayer at the end of the Gettysburg Address is as close as he got.

-- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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WE THE CITIZENS of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA ( PEOPLE not corporations), no longer have a government of the People, by the People, for the People.
We must demand it,s return.


William McPherson
Citizen Lobbyist