{"id":53604,"date":"2016-04-30T22:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=53604"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:53:08","slug":"manvotional-the-maxims-of-wabasha-i-sioux-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-the-maxims-of-wabasha-i-sioux-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: The Maxims of Wabasha I, Sioux Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor’s Note: Wabasha — or Wapasha — I (1718-1806) was a American Indian warrior and the chief of a band of Santee Sioux who resided in Minnesota. He was a man greatly respected for his ethics by both his tribe and their British neighbors. These are his teachings, as recorded by Ernest Thompson Seton.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the <\/span>day of <\/span>his strength no man is fat. Fat is good in a beast, but in a man it is disease and <\/span>comes only of <\/span>an evil life.<\/p>\n

No man will eat three times each sun if he would keep his body strong and <\/span>his mind unclouded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you would purify your heart and <\/span>so see clearer the <\/span>way of the <\/span>Great Spirit, touch no food for two days or more, according to your strength. For thereby your spirit hath mastery over the <\/span>body and the <\/span>body is purged.<\/p>\n

Touch not the <\/span>poisonous firewater that makes wise men turn fools. Neither touch food nor taste drink that robs the <\/span>body of <\/span>its power or the <\/span>spirit.<\/p>\n

Guard your tongue in youth, and <\/span>in age you may mature a thought that will be of <\/span>service to your people.<\/p>\n

Praise God when you rise, when you bathe, when you eat, when you meet your friends and <\/span>for all good happenings. And <\/span>if so be you see no cause for praise the <\/span>fault is in yourself.<\/p>\n

A proven Minisino [warrior] is at all times clean, courteous and <\/span>master of <\/span>himself.<\/p>\n

The <\/span>wise man will not hurt his mind for the <\/span>passing pleasure of the <\/span>body.<\/p>\n

If any man be given over to sex appetite he is harboring a rattlesnake, whose sting is rottenness and <\/span>sure death.<\/p>\n

By prayer and <\/span>fasting and <\/span>fixed purpose you can rule your own spirit, and <\/span>so have power over all those about you.<\/p>\n

Bathe every sun in cold water and <\/span>one sun in seven enter the <\/span>sweat lodge.<\/p>\n

When your time comes to die, sing your death song and <\/span>die pleasantly, not like the <\/span>white men whose hearts are ever filled with the <\/span>fear of <\/span>death, so when their time comes, they weep and <\/span>wail and <\/span>pray for a little more time so they may live their lives over again in a different manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: Wabasha — or Wapasha — I (1718-1806) was a American Indian warrior and the chief of a band of Santee Sioux who resided in Minnesota. He was a man greatly respected for his ethics by both his tribe and their British neighbors. These are his teachings, as recorded by Ernest Thompson Seton. In the day of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,6,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-53604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-featured","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sioux-538x280.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sioux-320x228.jpg","rpwe-thumbnail":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sioux-45x45.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53604"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121022,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53604\/revisions\/121022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53604"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}