Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
About this proverb
- Attributed to
- Cheyenne proverb
- Culture / tradition
- Cheyenne
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- Aboriginal Proverbs: Spoken By The Indigenous
- Attribution status
- As published
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