Think Indian

Think Indian and you will always be respectful, courteous, friendly, and helpful to your fellow man.

Think Indian and you will always be grateful and proud of your ancestry.

Think Indian and you will never be wasteful, you will never pollute and destroy.

Think Indian and you will never take part in thoughtless, indiscriminate, senseless vandalism.

Think Indian and you will learn how to respect, and how to love our mother, the good earth.

Think Indian and you will always be a good conservationist.

Think Indian and you will never need to use the White Man's mind destroying drugs.

Think Indian and you will better understand what our forefathers meant, when they said,

"Drink not too excessively of the White Man's fire- water for it can burn a good man into a whimpering fool."

Think Indian and you will realize that life is good and beautiful, that there is life even in the rocks and the stones; that there is life in the earth, around the earth, and beyond the earth; that the Creator of All Life is "Kitche Manitou" The Great Spirit.

Think Indian and you will help to preserve and retain our own native religion and heritage.

Think Indian and you will better be able to commune with nature, and nature will commune with you in return.

Think Indian and you will be helping to build a new kind of unity, brotherhood, progress, peace, among our people.

The Native People of Canada [and the World].

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