...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing… — Zitkala-Sa Copy Share Image
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know… Anybody else... well… — Cristian Machado Copy Share Image
Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that… — John Wooden 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
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to… — Anne Waldman 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
“Mackenzie, our profession courts death, madness is always just over the next rise, the next hillock…” Sherman’s voice dropped off, “I’m out… — Jim Cherry Copy Share Image
If I meet someone who's Native American and I don't know anything about indigenous people in New Jersey - which I kind… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the… — Thomas Banyacya Copy Share Image
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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 a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery… — Misty Upham 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
“The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one… — Extract from Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been… — Michael Scott 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
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
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience." ” — John-Paul Cernak Copy Share Image
America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite like the Native American Spirit. It is so freeing and liberating to understand the culture. It is a way… — Jenna Bognar Copy Share Image
[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from? — Cesare Borgia Copy Share Image
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. — Michael Tippett 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
“Hiking is like life... You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or… — Susannah Scott Copy Share Image
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ...… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson Copy Share Image
Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
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