Native american Quotes · Page 16

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.…

— Black Elk

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all…

— Sherman Alexie

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

— Black Elk

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

— Chief Joseph

The power of the world always works in circles.

— Black Elk

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.…

— Geronimo

Just because I’m Native American doesn’t mean I can track furniture through the wilderness.” She deepened her voice: “‘Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged…

— Rick Riordan

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really…

— Jim Jarmusch

We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.

— Archie Fire Lame Deer

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about…

— Steven Knight

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

— Luther Standing Bear

“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band.…

— Black Hawk

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin…

— Chinua Achebe

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my…

— Ten Bears

“I guess you hate the people most who make justifiable demands. Because they go to the heart of our psyche. We know…

— Mary Crow Dog

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

— D. H. Lawrence

In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).

— Daniel Brook

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.…

— Sitting Bull

For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what…

— Suzan Shown Harjo

When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was…

— Vandana Shiva

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from…

— Kyle MacLachlan

The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It…

— Starhawk

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

— Cynthia Ozick

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what…

— Dave Barry

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman