Native American Quotes

251 Native American quotes by 145 unique authors

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do… — Black Elk
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear
Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight.… — Wovoka
When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told… — Wovoka
Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as… — Crowfoot
Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it… — Ten Bears
You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me… — Standing Bear
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So… — Christopher Moore
I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. — Alan Robinson
We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their… — Brigham Young
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. — Will Rogers
I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty! — Will Rogers
They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300… — David Letterman
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in… — Black Hawk
This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian… — Marc Forgione
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the… — Paul Fussell
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry… — Henry Louis Gates
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born… — Geronimo
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. — Khalil Gibran
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist,… — Newt Gingrich
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two… — Bill Cosby
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received… — Jared Diamond
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen… — Jared Diamond
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Edward Everett Hale

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