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
“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
Until then may the Great Spirit guide us all and may Mother Earth continue to keep us in her compassionate embrace.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2016
She took a bath in a spring to wash away her tears, and a Great Spirit appeared to her with armfuls of sugarcane and rice.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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