The Lone Wolf Band of Cherokee Indians
Indiana's Cherokee people.

CHEROKEE RELIGIOUS INFORMATION

THE INDIAN TEN COMMANDMENTS

  • Treat Mother Earth and all who dwell thereon with respect!
  • Remain close to the Great Spirit
  • Show great respect for your fellow beings
  • Work together for the benefit of all mankind!
  • Give assistance and kindness wherever needed
  • Do what you know is right
  • Look after the well-being of mind and body
  • Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good
  • Be truthful and honest at all times
  • Take full responsibility for your actions....

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    Cherokee Prayer Blessing

    May the Warm Winds of Heaven
    Blow softly upon your house.
    May the Great Spirit
    Bless all who enter there.
    May your Moccasins
    Make happy tracks
    in many snows,
    and may the Rainbow
    Always touch your shoulder.

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    Silence Prayer

    O’ Great Spirit
    Help me always to speak the truth quietly,
    To listen with an open mind when others speak,
    And to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

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    Cherokee Prayer Blessing

    May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house.
    May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there.
    May your moccasins make happy tracks in many snows,
    and may the rainbow always touch your shoulder.

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    Cherokee Trail of Life Prayer

    As I walk the trail of life, in the fear of the wind and rain,
    Grant O’ Great Spirit that I may always walk like a man.

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    Cherokee Serenity Prayer

    God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
    The courage to change the things I can.
    And the wisdom to know the difference.

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    THE LORDS PRAYER
    (In Cherokee)

    Our Father, heaven dweller,
    o-gi-do-da ga-lv-la-di-he-hi

    My loving will be (to) Thy name.
    Ga-lv-quo-di-yu ge-se-s-di de-tsa-do-v-i

    Your Lordship let it makes its appearence
    tsa-gv-wi-yu-hi ge-sv wi-ga-na-nu-go-i

    Here upon earth let it happen what you think,
    a-ni-a-lo-hi wi-sti-ga-li-s-da ha-da-nv-te-s-gv-i

    The same as in heaven is done.
    Na-s-gi-ya ga-lv-la-di tsi-ni-ga-li-s-di-ha

    Daily our food give to us this day.
    Ni-da-do-da-gui-sv o-ga-li-s-da-yv-di s-gi-v-si go-hi-i-ga

    Forgive us our debts,
    di-ge-s-gi-v-si-quo-no de-s-gi-du-gv-i

    the same as we forgive our debtors,
    na-s-gi-ya tsi-di-ga-yo-tsi-na-ho tso-tsi-du-gi

    And do not temptation being lead us into,
    a-le tla-s-di u-da-go-le-ye-di-yi ge-sv wi-di-s-gi-ya-ti-nv-s-tanvgi

    Deliver us from evil existing
    s-gi-yu-da-le-s-ge-s-di-quo-s-gi-ni u-yo ge-sv-i

    For thine your Lordship is,
    a-le tsa-li-ni-gi-di-yi ge-sv-i

    And the power is,
    a-le tsa-li-ni-gi-di-yi ge-sv-i

    And the glory is forever.
    A-le e-tsa-lv-quo-di-yu ge-sv ni-go-hi-lv-i

    Amen
    e men

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    Amazing Grace - The hymn

    Starting in 1838, by the act of Congress and the signature of then President Andrew Jackson, the Cherokee people were removed from their homeland of Georgia. A U.S. Calvary regiment of 7000 men forcibly removed the Cherokee from their homes and herded them like cattle, in brutal weather, to Oklahoma, along what is now called the “Trail of Tears.” The song “Amazing Grace” was sung along the way on the Trail of Tears, in remembrance of our ancestors and of that part of our sad American history. Amazing Grace has since become an national anthem of the Cherokees people.

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