Native american Quotes

I'm a Native American actress.

— Julia Jones

I was born where there were no enclosures.

— Geronimo

“It takes Passion to bring a Vision to Life.”

— Mary Adair

Do the very best you can.

— Dale Carnegie

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

— Ernest Holmes

“Earth Breathes in Us.”

— Matthew Edward Hall

I'm proud of my Native American heritage,

— Elizabeth Warren

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

— Chief Seattle

“The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.”

— Dianne Harman

“You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.”

— Stacy Buck

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

— Crowfoot

It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.

— Cornplanter

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

— Seneca the Younger

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

— Tecumseh

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

— Luther Standing Bear

“Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.”

— G.G. Collins

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere…

— James Thurber

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

— Black Hawk

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and…

— Chief Joseph

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he…

— Chief Seattle

I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a…

— Valerie June

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be…

— Dennis Banks

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element…

— John Baldacci

No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in…

— Leonard Peltier

We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken…

— Barack Obama

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in…

— Henry David Thoreau

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist,…

— Jesse Jackson

“Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down…

— Sherman Alexie

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental…

— Stewart Udall

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles…

— Joe Baca

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

— Starhawk

Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts…Now we are together again to…

— Black Kettle

When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and…

— Geronimo

“Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm…

— Sherman Alexie

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

Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important,…

— Luther Standing Bear

How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into…

— Henry David Thoreau

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do…

— Chief Seattle