Quotes about native
native-american men looks
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it. Sitting Bull
native-american men white-man
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
native-american men white-man
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
native-american men sight
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
native-american warrior boys
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
native-american made indian
God made me an Indian.
native-american spirit knows
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say...
native-american animal land
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
native-american heart men
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
native-american rights india
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
native-american people greek
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American? Michael Scott
native-american years savages
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 and they still cant see us. We are still invisible. John Trudell
native-american people humans
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.
native-american media african-american
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies. John Shelton Reed
native-american italian african-american
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. Nas
native-american land grandparent
Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives. John Wooden
native-american ethnicity mexican
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 born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I'm not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American. Russell Means
native-american views demand
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. Tecumseh
native-american rights looks
If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic situation in some form. And this has been brought about by their aggressive assertion of their sovereign treaty rights. Leonard Peltier
native-american rights government
United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.
native-american kids warrior
This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why. Marc Forgione
native-american enjoy native
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. Toni Morrison
native-american discovery native-country
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. Stephen Hawking
native-american world noise
making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world. Robbie Robertson
native-american guilt way
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
native-american facts natural
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. Ralph Waldo Emerson
native shrimp taste
Farm-raised shrimp don't have any taste. Not like native shrimp.
native-american thinking silence
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans. Rick Yancey
native-american land web-of-life
When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their land and valuables, and respecting almost nothing about the native cultures. They lost the wisdom of the indigenous peoples-wisdom about the land and connectedness to the great web of life…We have another chance with all these refugees. People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America… Mary Pipher
native-american people peaceful
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans. Philipp Meyer
native-american world mythology
I have built my world through Native American mythology. Tori Amos
native-american home animal
I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards. Valerie June
native-american giving fiction
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 that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth. Salman Rushdie