America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“He had seen the same mixture of exhaustion and fight in Russell’s face. It was the poison of war spreading its sickness.” — Jennifer Leeper Copy Share Image
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to… — Chief Seattle 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
“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.” — Anonymous 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
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
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
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Right to a speedy jury trial and so on and so forth. But what do they mean by 'person'? It certainly didn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended… — Tom Feeney 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
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Weakness and strength are necessary for balance. No one or nothing is only weak or only strong. But some of us overlook… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman 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 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
The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you. — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts When you hear me singing I… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I was young, kids who were more Native American than me would call me 'white boy.' To my white friends, I… — Brady Jandreau Copy Share Image
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“according to Native American legends, dogs with different-colored eyes could see both heaven and earth.” — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make… — G.G. Collins Copy Share Image
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Horsemanship and the cowboy lifestyle and my culture as a Native American are all three things that are very, very important to… — Brady Jandreau Copy Share Image
It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
