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
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat… — Chief Joseph 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 time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know… — Canasatego Copy Share Image
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the… — John Neihardt Copy Share Image
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say… — Chief Joseph 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
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
