“You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.” — Stacy Buck Copy Share Image
Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were… — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“We weep, tears of blood, we weep, In despair, crying, we weep; the sun forever has stolen the light from his eyes.… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
“WEST SALEM ~ October 2011 A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure… — Cherie De Sues Copy Share Image
“It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry… — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly… — Eagle Chief Letakos-Lesa Pawnee Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of… — Joseph Smith, Jr 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
I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image