Skip to main content

I Love a People

George Catlin's Creed
This is from a lovely video I saw on FaceBook. You can view the video here: 



Post by Richard Smith.


Here is the narrative:

"You know there was an artist, a very perceptive, very famous artist back in the first half of the 1800s. It was called the 19th Century.  And for 8 to 9 years he lived among the Indians.  He traveled among many of them, and he got to know them.

Sometime after 1840 he wrote... a book.  Many books, in fact.  And I want you to listen to George Catlin's Creed.

George Catlin, wow, what a man.  He said:

I love a people that have always made me welcome to the very best that they had.
I love a people who are honest without laws, who have no jails and no poorhouses.
I love a people who keep the commandments without ever having read or heard them preached from the pulpit.
I love a people who never swear or take the name of God in vain.
I love a people "who love their neighbors as they love themselves."
I love a people who worship God without a Bible, for I believe that God loves them also.
I love a people whose religion is all the same, and who are free from religious animosities.
I love a people who have never raised a hand against me, or stolen my property, when there was no law to punish either.
I love and don't fear mankind where God has made and left them, for they are his children.
I love the people who have never fought a battle with the white man, except on their own ground.
I love a people who live and keep what is their own without lock and keys.
I love a people who do the best they can. And oh how I love a people who don't live for the love of money.

George Catlin's Creed (alternate link to video)


George Catlin was an artist that spent 8 years living among the tribal people of the Great Plains of America during the "pre-civilization" days. He also had this short narrative to explain his reason and observations for writing the above creed.

"All history goes to prove that when first visited by civilized people, the American Indians have been found friendly and hospitable ---- from the days of Christopher Columbus to the Lewis and Clark expedition ... And so also have a great many travelers, including myself: Nowhere to my knowledge, have they stolen a six-pence worth of my property. Though in their country there are no laws to punish for theft. I have visited 48 different tribes, and feel authorized to say that the North American Indian in his native state is honest, hospitable, faithful, brave,... and an honorable and religious human being..."

http://brotherhooddays.com/CATLIN.html
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

All comments must be approved before posting. Comments that are not approved are due to spam and shall be reported as such.
Thank you.




Popular posts from this blog

Support Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices

The following is a letter I have sent through automation to write my Representatives encouraging them to support term limits for Supreme Court Justices. Feel free to copy and paste the following letter that I rewrote from the previously formatted letter that will appear in the link provided at the bottom of this article. Or, use their letter. Or, better yet, rewrite it for yourself as I have done.  When you go to the link, your representatives will automatically appear when you enter your address.  This is such a simple way to contact your representatives in Washington, D.C.  Topic - government reform or judicial Letter: Thank you for your service to our country as a representative of the people. Integrity still matters to most people. Unfortunately, we are living in an era where we can no longer depend on one's conscience to dictate or control individual actions. I, and the majority of Americans, have lost faith in the Supreme Court’s ability to act as a neutral arbiter ...
Post a Comment
Read more

My Only True Vice Was Smoking

If you know me well, you know these things about me... I don't drink I don't do drugs I don't gamble I don't swear I don't sleep around I don't even buy lottery tickets My only true vice has been smoking cigarettes. And now I don't do that. I have been without a cigarette for a whole week. You may think that isn't long enough for me to say that I have truly quit, but I think it's a fair statement considering the circumstances. How did I quit? Our wonderful government decided to add a flame retardant to the cigarette papers, and I am allergic to it. How nice of them. I'm betting that more than 99% of  smokers have NOT caused any forest fires because if they had, there would be fires constantly burning ALL of the time all over this land and we would not be able to keep them down. So, let's insert an ingredient that is toxic and deadly to the smoker, so we can stop all of those non-existent fires. Some say the ingredien...
6 comments
Read more

MommyKo.com Christmas Give-a-way

This ends December 22nd, so hurry on over and enter at MymmyKo.com FIRST PRIZE - $35 + 16,000 EC $25 - My Online Paradise $5 - Blessings In Life $5 plus 1000 Ec - Moi et mon univers *1 banner - worth $149 - Buytemplates.net *1 blog layout - My Web-Blog Designs *cuties for Christmas - So Cute 5000 Ec plus 125x125 ads space for 1 month - Snapshot 3000 EC - Stranded Life 2000 EC plus banner ad for 1 month + text link for 1 month + ebook for bloggers- Kasakk 1000 EC - Crimson Heaven 1000 EC - Heart Random 1000 EC - More on Health 1000 EC - Jenny Talks 1000 EC - Sharing my Thoughts 125x125 ads space for 1 month worth $20 - Contest For Bloggers 125x125 ad space for 1 month - Shopping Blog 2ND PRIZE - $25 + 14,000 EC $10 - Follow Your Sense of Adventure $10 - Yennygirl $5 - More on Heath *1 banner - worth $149 - Buytemplates.net *blog layout - The Designer's Chic 1000 EC plus 125x125 ad space for 1 month - Living on One Income 3000 EC - Sweetytots 2000 EC credits plus 1 month ad space ...
1 comment
Read more