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
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
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“Where the mountain crosses. On top of the mountain, I do not myself know where. I wandered where my mind and my… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I knew that the black struggle wasn't my struggle. But I felt like it was my-struggle-adjacent, you know? I've always said that… — Negin Farsad Copy Share Image
“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued… — Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman Copy Share Image
Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary… — Eunice Baumann-Nelson Ph.D PENOBSCOT Copy Share Image
“He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached… — Laura Anderson Kurk 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
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
