1808: Everything on Earth Has a Purpose Mourning Dove's Dharma

Wisdom of the Sages by David Ramella

Aug 18, 202657:45Religion & Spirituality

"Everything on the earth has a purpose. Every disease, an herb to cure it. And every person, a mission." Morning Dove — the first Native American women to publish a novel — called this the Indian theory of existence. In...

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