Native Quotes

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Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where… — Luther Standing Bear
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and… — Luther Standing Bear
I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim… — Frank Fools Crow
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. — Luther Standing Bear
Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent… — Mark Krikorian
A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is… — David Cerone
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he… — Herodotus
Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said… — Herodotus
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native… — Hari Kondabolu
Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the… — Jim Knight
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made… — E. Stanley Jones
You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them,… — Dylan Brody
Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand.… — Mors Kochanski
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art.… — Lucian Freud
We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism… — Ilya Ehrenburg
Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the… — Noam Chomsky
I'm proud of my Native American heritage, — Elizabeth Warren
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, — Elizabeth Warren
I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big,… — Wanda Sykes
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex… — Amiri Baraka

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