“Look at me—I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.”
Excerpted from: Nerburn, Kent and Louise Mengelkoch, eds. Native American Wisdom. San Rafael, CA: Classic Wisdom Collection, 1991.
