Quotes about native
native-american people earth
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Chief Seattle
native-american heart earth
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
native-american web-of-life earth-day
All things are bound together. All things connect.
native-american air water
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
native-american might waste
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
native-american people world
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.
native-american men air
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
native-american law great-american
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. Chief Joseph
native-american men white-man
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
native-american fighting sun
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
native-american fighting great-american
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
native-american grizzly-bears deer
We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
native-american race land
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
native-american dust tree
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.
native-american men rocks
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota. Dave Barry
native-language ideas skins
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. Casey Miller
native-american government years
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! Eddie Izzard
native-american epic film
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. Beau Bridges
native-american school responsibility
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride. Dennis Banks
native-american men thinking
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years. Carlos Mencia
natives
In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America. Eduardo Galeano
native-american stories born
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born, Elizabeth Warren
native-american proud heritage
I'm proud of my Native American heritage,
native near seek visit
When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out. Jon Voight
native-american land people
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia. Vandana Shiva
native-american roots issues
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.
native-american gun steel
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 germs, and steel? Jared Diamond
native-american epidemics giving
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 from the Old World.
native parks rosa seemed
I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.
native-american marijuana eagles
The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle. Conan O'Brien
native teacher western
The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. Gerald Vizenor
native-american land red
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will. D. H. Lawrence
native-american gun land
The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is. Danny Glover