Native Quotes
Native Quote of the day
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.
An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.
The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
The final goal ... is to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.
In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.