Native land Quote by Mario I. Miclat

“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.”

— Tommy Orange

“Without the land there is no nation.”

— Sero Khanzadyan

“If you can't live in the land you love, love the land you're in.”

— Richard Louv

“Perhaps everybody, indigenous and not, lives on their own kind of reservation.”

— Sherman Alexie

“But it's not so much a headache as possession, my head an occupied territory, and my normal self, a disenfranchised native populace, driven underground.”

— Andrew Levy

“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous…

— Arthur Manuel

“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows…

— Daniel Hill

“We must live according to the principle of a land ethic. The alternative is that we shall not live at all.”

— Kathleen Dean Moore

“How are we to become native to this land?" (as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)”

— Paul Shepard

“a tribe is nothing more than a coalition of people working together as equals to make a living.”

— Daniel Quinn

“I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don’t think…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“It was not long until it became manifest that I would have to either give up the Indians or lose my standing with the…

— Daniel Webster Jones