Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears. — Archie Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“His own mother’s blood was mixed between her Lakota mother and a French trapper. His father’s family came from Scotland to escape… — A.G. Graham Copy Share Image
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father… — Spotted Tail Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“Pain flashed through his eyes. “Dammit, Evie.” Steam huffed against my mouth. “I’m fucking drowning in my desire to be near you,… — Pam Godwin Copy Share Image
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this… — Scott Zesch Copy Share Image
“I know he’s had his problems in the past… “He can’t keep his hands off a liquor bottle at the best of… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
There are probably 400 to 500 people, water protectors, north of the 1889 boundary, that was the result of an illegal annexation… — Chase Iron Eyes Copy Share Image
When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
What does kiciciyapi mitawa mean?" He kept his head on her breasts. "What?" "You called me kicicyapi mitawa. It sounded so beautiful.… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'.… — Paul Goble Copy Share Image
Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important,… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
