Paula Gunn Allen Quotes
Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.
Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.
Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.
Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.
America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.
... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.
It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.
In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.
True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.