Quotes about native
native-american thinking fool
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am. Sitting Bull
native-american men looks
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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 pursuit civilized
By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. John Ross
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 healing people
It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil. Nate Parker
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 community priorities
The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. John Baldacci
native-american sheep government
I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate. Thomas Jefferson
native-american unique numbers
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 of the state. Rick Renzi
native-american congress native
I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.
native-language roles pivotal
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history
native-american looks culture
Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. Thomas Haden Church
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 eye garden
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it. Washington Irving
native-american-indian indian-reservations indian
The only good Indian is a dead Indian William Tecumseh Sherman
native-american space light
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth. William Least Heat-Moon
native-american ancestry boat
My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. Will Rogers
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
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