Dekanawidah
Iroquois
"I
thought I was different because I'm an Indian." I heard that statement
from many Natives at my early A.A. meetings. I would only shrug and say to myself:
You think you're different, what about me? I'm a red-haired Indian.
"Fourth
Edition" Big Book pg. 494
What
is an American Indian? The answer of course is that an Indian is an idea
which a given man has of himself. And it is a moral idea, for it accounts
for the way in which he reacts to other men and to the world in general and
that idea, in order to be realized completely, has to be expressed.
N. Scott
Monaday Kiowa & Cherokee
"Well,
Buddy, I guess there's just you and me." Believe it or not, it worked:
those simple words worked. Something happened: A little peace came over me,
anxiety left, and then I lay down and fell asleep. I slept well that night, the
first good sleep in a long time. That feeble request to God worked. I was
honest and really wanted God's help. From that day on, I knew that I had found
a Higher Power and that He would help me.
"Fourth
Edition" Big Book pg. 499
I thank
the Great Spirit, the sun and the moon, for putting me on this earth. It is a
good earth and I hope there will be no more fighting on it. That the grass will
grow and the water will fall and plenty of buffalo.
Cut Nose Arapaho