The Native American System of Education accepts the Key Stones of Life -- does not try to destroy them or run from them. It sees them and expresses them in the only way possible -- by story, or ritual, or festival, or CELEBRATION!!!

"The Human Mind loves a mystery even more than it craves a solution." Dan Rather

FIVE OF THE PRINCIPAL MYSTERIES OF LIFE:

1. WHO AM I? Taught in the naming ceremony. (Necessary, I think, in every culture and in every organization -- even in Religious Orders.)

2. WHO IS MY BROTHER? Taught in the "making of relatives" ceremony. TAHANSI means "you and I are one." (Necessary, too, I think, for us to keep titles like "Brother" "Sister" "Mister." Titles let us know our interdependence."

3. WHO'S IN CHARGE? For Indians, SPIRIT was everywhere. Only He could make the cloud and the tree; only He could call the Buffalo. (We use Computers, and we become what we use ! ! !)

4. WHAT IS HAPPINESS? Is it acquisition and exclusion; or is it sharing and love? (Among Indians, the happiest person was the one who could get along with the least.)

5. WHAT'S COMING AFTERWARDS? For Indians, existence is a circle. Death is the sweeping of the person back to God, from whom he came. Death is not an end.

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge." T.S. Eliot