There are two parts to native stories that that we often don’t see. You’ll notice that most of the Native teachings that come to us, that are being brought to us, are stories about how we are integrated with everything. Simple stories, told in so many different ways, but they have a theme that is fairly consistent.
The stories show that the human being is part of everything. We’re not separate. We need to listen to what’s around us. We aren’t the owners of the world. Everything is our relation.
There’s this very solid theme of connection that goes through everything we hear.
What we often don’t notice is that along with this theme is an undercurrent of assumption that the story tellers have seen it go wrong. Very often the native teaching will be about when it went wrong, and what it took to bring it back to harmony.
The stories are about living in harmony, but there’s this subtle underlying wisdom about how easy it is for a human being to let their mind take them in the wrong direction. How easy it is to start thinking that we are separate. The teachings are repeating, and repeating, and repeating illustrations of how we came back to harmony.
The stories tell us to stop. Look and see how we’re connected. Stop. Look and see how we’re connected… because we know from our history, we know from reality, we know from being human beings ourselves, how easy it is to slip away from that.
Maybe there’s a third part of the story that’s really important too. It is the fact that we so easily slip away from it, but if we are reminded we can come back to unity. We can use our intention to back to it.
These stories aren’t magic. They’re just about reality. They’re about the reality of what it is to be a human being and how it’s our responsibility to constantly bring ourselves back to this place of balance.