Native American Quotes

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well where did you come from?

In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

I'm a Native American actress.

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.

Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.

We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us.