Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy. — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may… — Black Elk 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
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
This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was… — Marc Forgione Copy Share Image
Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you… — Chief Dan George 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
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“We didn't have last names before they came. When they decided they needed to keep track of us, last names were given… — Tommy Orange Copy Share Image
“They say that perhaps it is not by love, but by blood, that land is bought. They say that perhaps my people… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
For me space rock is something that takes you out of yourself and out of your normal realm. And if space happens… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the… — Tatanka Copy Share Image
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit,… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, traffickers, thieves, morons and imbeciles were white.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a… — Jennifer Frick-Ruppert Copy Share Image
“The dawns I have felt in my soul testify that I am known by the Giver of light. To walk forward, I… — Anasazi Foundation Copy Share Image
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy… — Dan Maffei Copy Share Image
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