Native Quotes

646 quotes by 477 authors

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow! — Chief Joseph
The idea of full dress for preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation… — Wooden Leg
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of… — Chief Joseph
My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood… — Chief Blackfish
I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But… — Oren Lyons
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. — Tecumseh
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great… — Zitkala-Sa
Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My… — Black Kettle
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and… — Charles Alexander Eastman
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt… — Charles Alexander Eastman
It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you. — Cornplanter
Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony. — Chief Dan George
We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it.… — Chief Dan George
The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too. — Quanah Parker
By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. — John Ross
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great… — Tecumseh
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it? — Deacon Jones
The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective,… — Paul Hasluck

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