Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my… — Gerald McRaney Copy Share Image
I think that there are times when Puertoricans think, "Oh, we are blessed with the relationship with the U.S." But the end… — Oscar Lopez Rivera Copy Share Image
Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
“One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations… — Douglas Tallamy Copy Share Image
Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes. — Lynn Viehl Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
An herbal medicine made from a plant native to Asia is about to be banned in the U.S. It's known as either… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
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