“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more…My friends, if… — Standing Bear Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
“They say that perhaps it is not by love, but by blood, that land is bought. They say that perhaps my people… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were… — Bobby Bridger Copy Share Image
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence… — Helen Chenoweth-Hage Copy Share Image
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
You also get a deduction in America for taking a night school course, growing sugarcane, moving to a new city for a… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
For me space rock is something that takes you out of yourself and out of your normal realm. And if space happens… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you. — Cornplanter Copy Share Image
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary. — Henry David Thoreau 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
“He had seen the same mixture of exhaustion and fight in Russell’s face. It was the poison of war spreading its sickness.” — Jennifer Leeper Copy Share Image
When I was young, kids who were more Native American than me would call me 'white boy.' To my white friends, I… — Brady Jandreau Copy Share Image
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you. — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
“Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.” — G.G. Collins Copy Share Image
I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty! — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant… — Nas Copy Share Image
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
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