Native Quotes
Native Quote of the day
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
There is not one Indian in the whole of this country who does not cringe in anguish and frustration because of these textbooks. There is not one Indian child who has not come home in shame and tears.
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.
What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it's only one!
Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.
For being so straight and sure, God’s path held quite the assortment of twists.
If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.
There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.
What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.
What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.
Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.
I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land.
Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.
Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.
I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t, and now I must face the consequences.
There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.
One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.
The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.
And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are the Gods of other Provinces more sacred than ours?
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 naïve, I feel!
When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.
The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.
I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to walk with Him that I have learned to walk forward.
Stallions, " Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.
As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within.
There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.
The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry
To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.
Allow the power to flow through you. Don’t try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.
If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society.
We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us.
Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regardless he did not require it for long.
I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.
