Quotes about native
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. Chief Seattle
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 circles shapes
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw. Black Elk
native-american circles world
The power of the world always works in circles.
native-american circles done
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
native-american circles bird
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
native-american circles people
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
native-american would-be foolish
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 would be foolish.
native-american world sacred
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
native-american grandfather wish
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
native-american circles doe
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.
native-american eye men
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
native-american thinking people
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package. Chaske Spencer
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
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
natives tense
The natives are getting restless. It's a tense situation.
native several speakers
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
native-american people made
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 because people came from someplace else. Isabel Wilkerson
native represents works
I like to say this show represents works by Native American artists, not Native American art.
native shrimp taste
Farm-raised shrimp don't have any taste. Not like native shrimp.
native prone typical wearing
A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black. Amanda Hearst
native processed
All are being processed and will be removed to their native countries.
native-american apaches born
I was born where there were no enclosures. Geronimo
native-american gun men
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with. Henry David Thoreau
native-american missionary christianity
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
native-american names lakes
The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.