Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages,… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ." — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group. — Wes Studi Copy Share Image
A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot. — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a… — Stuart Scott Copy Share Image
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains. — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
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