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Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us. — Chief Seattle

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. — Seneca The Younger

I want them to see the magic of how
everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky. — Autumn Morning Star

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural. — Henry David Thoreau

The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make death official. — G.G. Collins

I'm a freak with power. — Sherman Alexie

What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it. — Linda Hogan

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us. — Richard Wright

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again! — Russell Means

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will. — D.H. Lawrence

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. — Native American Saying

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. — Colson Whitehead

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. — Black Elk

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. — Nicolas Cage

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it. — Joel Hodgson

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. — Eric Balfour

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty! — Will Rogers

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. — Mourning Dove

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

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade. — G.G. Collins

The only good Indian is a dead Indian — William Tecumseh Sherman

Who can declare that money is not a power which rulers of the world cannot withstand? — S. Alice Callahan

Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten. — Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. — Tatanka

Each morning offers lessons in light. For the morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness. — Anasazi Foundation

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage. — Sherman Alexie

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. — Alice Walker

No. But then the American Government
whatever branch
has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Darkness within clouds the world without. — Anasazi Foundation

Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you. — Geronimo

Let us observe the mating rituals of the lecherous North American lounge lizard in his native habitat: The Open Bar. — Qwen Salsbury

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. — Skeet Ulrich

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. — Sitting Bull

We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys. — Anasazi Foundation

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

I know what it's like to be different. I'm a Native American in a white world. — Tamara Hoffa

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary. — Henry David Thoreau

Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit. — Tecumseh

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

According to Native American legends, dogs with different-colored eyes could see both heaven and earth. — James Rollins

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

A Jewish Native American half-breed orphan playing bagpipes wasn't the sort of impression I ever wanted to make — James Anderson

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste. — Chief Seattle

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. — Tecumseh

We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us. — Anasazi Foundation

You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know. — Stacy Buck

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail. — Diane Glancy

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. — Tecumseh

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence. — Robert Muller

Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward. — Anasazi Foundation

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. — Gloria Steinem

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

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

In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning - and more will. — Gloria Steinem

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

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. — Tecumseh

Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. — Russell Means

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. — Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed. — S. Alice Callahan

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

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts — Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within. — Anasazi Foundation

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. — John Ross

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. — Native American Saying

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. — Toni Morrison

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage. — Chief White Eagle

Stallions," Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA — Veronica Randolph Batterson

You must know where you came from yesterday, know where you are today, to know where you're going tomorrow." -Cree saying — Trace A. DeMeyer

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. — Chief Joseph

Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people. — Anasazi Foundation

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. — Anasazi Foundation

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. — Michael Tippett

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. — Henry Ford

They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million. — David Letterman

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American. — Gerald Vizenor

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker) — Jamie-Leigh Haden

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. — Chief Seattle

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen

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

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart. — Anasazi Foundation

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there. — Vine Deloria Jr.

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

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

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

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people. — Anasazi Foundation

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them. — Anasazi Foundation

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. — Mark Twain

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. — Charles Alexander Eastman

The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus. The Indian goes into his tipi and talks with Jesus. — Quanah Parker

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. — John Oates

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

It takes Passion to bring a Vision to Life. — Mary Adair

To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture. — Sherman Alexie

It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday — Michael Meuers

Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has on his nose. — Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers

The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land ... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. — Chief Joseph

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle