Angel, Native American

NATIVE AMERICAN ANGEL -  Native American spiritual beliefs hold rich accounts of spirits or angels - that the dead live on and even visit us.  Death is typically viewed as a door into the next life, or world, and not something to be feared but embraced.

"We believe that the spirit pervades all creation and that every creature possesses a soul in some degree, though not necessarily a soul conscious to itself.  The tree, the waterfall, the grizzly bear, each is an embodied force, and as such an object of reverence." - Ohiyesa, Sioux 1902 (aka Charles Eastman)

The Native American belief in spirit (angel) visitation can be found in an amazing speech made in 1854, by Chief Seattle:

"And when the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among white men shall have become a myth, these shores shall swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children shall think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway or in the silence of the woods, they will not be alone." - Chief Seattle, 1854