Great Spirit
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“The Great Spirit gave us this plant a long time ago,” Steven Benally, a Diné leader of the Native American Church, explained when I asked him simply to describe a peyote ceremony.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021
The prayers begin and end the same way, with a call to the Great Spirit and a heartfelt aho, a Plains Indian’s way of saying amen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2019
“Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
As Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe said: “We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2016
Molly Molasses lived into her nineties, coming and going from Indian Island, and was said to possess m’teoulin, power given by the Great Spirit to a few for the good of the whole.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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