Carolina QuotesJohn Blackfeather Jeffries
North Carolina · residentBorn 1939
crafter and member of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
- Lived in Hillsborough
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When people ask me if I’m a Native American, I say, ‘No, I’m a First American because I’m a [descendant of the] first people.’
How can I cry for her? Crying is for me. That’s a gift to me
Water never goes away. It always comes back. You see in the summertime the sun drawing the water. If water leaves it will come back. How long has that river been there? How long has Stillhouse Creek been there going into the river? That’s the blood of life for the earth.
Living water. Listen to it and it will talk to you. I have laid down there by the village site and listened to the water running over the rocks. It will talk to you. You got to listen to it.
Water will return just like our bodies. Our bodies will return to the earth. Water will return. Water comes from the earth, it will return to the earth.
Was that woman State recognized? Do you have to be State recognized to say a prayer and to honor your ancestors?