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General => Research Needed => Topic started by: tecpaocelotl on October 18, 2011, 03:49:25 am

Title: Origin of the native 10 commandments
Post by: tecpaocelotl on October 18, 2011, 03:49:25 am

Just wondering the origin of the "native" 10 commandments.

Title: Re: Origin of the native 10 commandments
Post by: earthw7 on October 18, 2011, 05:12:03 pm

I wonder too must of been made up by a christian

Title: Re: Origin of the native 10 commandments
Post by: Laurel on October 18, 2011, 08:26:46 pm

This site credits them to "Jasper Saunkeah, Cherokee."

http://www.firstpeople.us/html/Native_Commandments.html

Wikipedia says "In 1989 (reprinted 1993), Viesti Associates produced a poster listing "The Ten Indian Commandments", a purported Native American counterpart of the biblical Ten Commandments. The ten points listed echo the cliché of the native living in ecological harmony."

http://www.viestiphoto.com/about/