Work, Doing, Make, Act

This sign is used very often in the sense of make and work, and frequently in such sentences as "I will try and fix it for you," "We are farming," "Will go to my people and work hard for them," "With them," "For peace." (Rather more in the sense of work than make.) The Indian Sign Language, W.P. Clark

MY YOUNG MEN SHALL NEVER WORK. MEN WHO WORK CANNOT dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams.

You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.

You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men.

But how dare I cut off my mother's hair? —Smohalla Nez Perce

Make Fire