Native People Quotes: top 39 famous quotes about Native People

Native People Quotes & Sayings

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People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. — Amy Bloom

The working people are bound to their native shoes. — Benito Mussolini

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. — Crazy Horse

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant. — ASAP Rocky

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine. — Brad Jensen

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. — Dennis Banks

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

Thanks Giving.
The Indian and the White Man together.
The pageantry spoke to me of civilization. — Stephen Graham Jones

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. — Steve Earle

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. — Chief Seattle

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic. — Albert Pujols

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay. — Winona LaDuke

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

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. — John Trudell

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West. — Dennis Banks

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

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. — Russell Means

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich

As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil. — Warren Eyster

Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world. — Louis Owens

The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too. — Quanah Parker

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs. — Sophocles

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace. — Joseph Bruchac

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic." — Joseph Boyden

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology, — Danah Boyd

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

People know two languages: their native language and gibberish. — Maribel C. Pagan

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

You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to their own indiscretions. — Violetta Botzet Luetgers

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

There is no substitute to living in one's native land, struggling and winning with one's own people. — Mario I. Miclat

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

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. — Edith Piaf

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

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