“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
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer. — Floyd Red Crow Westerman Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas Copy Share Image
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it. — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my… — Ten Bears Copy Share Image
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“other hand, had been the exact opposite. Six-foot-five, Native American who weighed in at three-hundred pounds and” — Kristie K. Shafer Copy Share Image
Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans. — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go… — Geronimo 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
If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation,… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I speak of the Creator. Are you surprised by my candor? In a world that has killed the sacred, mention of it… — Anasazi Foundation Copy Share Image
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
Treat all men alike… give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“You do not understand what has happened to you… what I did to you.” he said sternly. Cold fright swelled in her… — Kyla Stan Copy Share Image
“As historian Theda Perdue and anthropologist Jack Campisi have noted separately, the closing of all-Indian schools created a crisis for southeastern Indians.… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world.” — Louis Owens Copy Share Image
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow! — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image