Trail, path, road, way

 

To have a road/trail = to have a custom

To give me a road = to give an office

To punish = to give one a hard road

Dark road = to travel an evil road

Course of action = choose a trail

Navigate = follow a trail

A plan = choosing a trail

Deeds = leave a trail

Fate = to travel your road

Transformed into something else = took a bird road (became a bird). Modern usage, took a politician road.

If one wishes go to a white mans house, he takes the road that leads there. In like manner, if he wish to go to an Indian’s Tepee, we take the road that will lead us there.

But, the roads are dissimilar. The white mans, is a broad and easy avenue, and the communications are easy.

The Indians road is a narrow dim trail, is tedious, and communication is slow and inconvenient.

Now, it is self evident that if, we try to reach the Indians tepee, and never go out of the white mans road we will never get there.

The trail of Chief Joseph:

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Chief Joseph

“All lost, we walked silently on into the wintry night”. —Wetatonmi, the night of Chief Joseph’s surrender

“It is the responsibility of each person to choose a path and to pray.” Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man