American Indian worldview, centered on an acute awareness of the sacredness of nature, contains a profound wisdom that we too can benefit.

The system of American Indian life was based on a true wisdom that was centered communion with the unspoiled nature and consciousness of the presence in it of the Great Spirit. The Indian world was a world of sense beings and natural phenomena, being symbols of a higher reality, conveyed a message that the Indian knew how to understand and codas activities of his life were imbued with a sense of transcendence. The profound dignity and love to freedom of -habituado redskin to live in a grandiose and enthralling beauty-natural environment also originated in him a sense of respect and tolerance, attitudes amply manifested in their relationship, for example, white missionaries. In the texts collected in this volume the reader will find the essential points of this worldview and a handful of wise reflections of the Redskins elderly.