Native american Quotes · Page 2

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

— Will Rogers

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

— Rickey Medlocke

Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.

— Wovoka

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

— Eric Balfour

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

— Black Elk

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

— Tori Amos

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

— Geronimo

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be…

— Dennis Banks

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

— Jay Leno

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

— Thom Yorke

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right…

— John Chivington

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort…

— Joel Hodgson

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already…

— Edward Abbey

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and…

— Crazy Horse

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

— Chief Seattle

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really…

— Jim Jarmusch

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat…

— Chief Joseph

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball…

— Wanda Sykes

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when…

— Joseph Bruchac

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin…

— Chinua Achebe

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk…

— Anonymous

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have…

— Tecumseh

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic…

— Sherman Alexie

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do…

— Chief Seattle

I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the…

— Alan Gratz

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to…

— Tod Goldberg

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?…

— Tecumseh

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do…

— Chief Seattle

I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions…

— John Wayne

It's the first thing liberals notice about people is what group are you in! "What group do I put you in? Are…

— Rush Limbaugh

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

— Black Elk

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

— Black Elk

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

— Toni Morrison

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

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”

— Tamanend

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

— Jared Polis

The power of the world always works in circles.

— Black Elk