Sen. David Shafer, R-Dances With Pipeline, and Navajo wisdom
February 27, 2008 at 3:13 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsReceived an e-mail from state Sen. David Shafer, R-Duluth, about his comments on the Senate floor regarding Chattanooga’s “ha-ha-why-don’t-you-try-conserving-before-you-gank-our-agua” shipment of bottled water. Big Chief say:
There is an ancient Indian proverb. Give a man a cup of water and you quench his thirst for an afternoon. Share in the waters of a great river and you quench his thirst for generations to come.
Today the City of Chattanooga delivered a pickup truck full of bottled water to the State Capitol. On behalf of the State Senate, I graciously accept this water as a down payment on the billions of gallons of Georgia water that feed the Tennessee River from the creeks and streams of Northwest Georgia.
I remain confident that border dispute between our two great states can be resolved in a neighborly fashion.
We’re all for cherry-picking ancient words of wisdom uttered by civilizations the White Man devastated, so here are some of our favorites, culled from a trustworthy and never-wrong source.
- “A good man does not take what belongs to someone else.” (Pueblo)
- “The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” (Sioux)
- “We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” (Dakota)
- “When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.” (Lakota)
- “Only when the last tree has withered, the last fish has been caught, and the last river has been poisoned, will you realize you cannot eat money.” (Cree)
And my personal favorite:
- “White men have too many chiefs.” (Nez Perce)
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