Native American Quotes

251 Native American quotes by 145 unique authors

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now… — Terri Windling
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas… — Rick Renzi
I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress. — Rick Renzi
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest… — Jared Diamond
You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered. — Ivan van Sertima
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys). — Unknown Author
In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. — Unknown Author
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist,… — Jesse Jackson
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. — Barack Obama
Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left. — Jay Leno
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history… — Salman Rushdie
As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the union of all… — Thomas Banyacya
Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them… — Eddie Izzard
There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who… — Barack Obama
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American… — Rick Renzi
Life is greater than you have ever known it. — Ernest Holmes
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. — Yancy Butler
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got… — Barack Obama
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things,… — Joanna Noelle Levesque
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except… — Terri Windling
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some… — Lisa Bonet
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living… — Buffy Sainte-Marie
The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the… — Tori Amos

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