Native American Quotes

251 Native American quotes by 145 unique authors

You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's… — Russell Means
A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties since 1887. They're… — Stephen Colbert
The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based… — Starhawk
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American… — Maria Tallchief
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social… — Sherman Alexie
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that… — Judith Jamison
I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american. — Thom Yorke
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise… — Paula Gunn Allen
I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and… — John Wayne
For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ...… — Tom Feeney
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land… — Unknown Author
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and… — Unknown Author
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
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
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,… — Unknown Author
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
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
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later… — John Trudell
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of… — Joe Baca
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is… — Isabel Wilkerson

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