Native American Quotes

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

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.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

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.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

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.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

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.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

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.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

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.

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

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.

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.