Native American Quotes - Page 11

• When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.

  Vandana Shiva

  Issues, Roots, Survival

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.

  Vandana Shiva

  Land, People, Occupation

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Men, Rude

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Animal

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Spirit-Filled Family”, Harvest House Pub

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• I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

  Black Elk

  Circles, Shapes, Sacred

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Culture, Looks, Elders

  "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.

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• Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.

  Shane Claiborne

  Prayer, Book, Names

  Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so they have a lot of nerve. We have a lot of nerve as a country. The only people that should have xenophobia are Native Americans. Everyone else should shut up.

  Godfrey

  Country, Xenophobia, Should Have

  Interview with Bryce Rudow, thedailybanter.com. January 15, 2014.

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• It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that U.S. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.

  Jill Soloway

  Struggle, Thinking, Israel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Allah God has come to fight the battle of justice for the Black man and woman of America and it is He who is plaguing America with the disasters of unusual rain, hail, snow, and soon earthquakes. So if the Black man and woman and the Native Americans, or Indians, are not in the equation of those running for the high office of the Presidency of the United States, if we are not in the equation for justice, then none of these candidates can save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).

  Louis Farrakhan

  Running, Rain, Fighting

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected populations are minorities, Native Americans, immigrants, and women living in poverty and who speak little or no English.

  Robin Lim

  Risk, Suffering, Population

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Home, Animal, Medicine

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Growing Up, Book, Cowboy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Sherman Alexie

  Selfish, Needs, Want

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• Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, White, Wife

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• I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian.

  Joe Biden

  Real, Mean, Should Have

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". Interview with Chris Wallace, spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.

  Dave Zirin

  Sports, Racism, People

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• The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don't we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people.

  LeGrand Richards

  Book, Dark, White

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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

  Heart, Tablets, Earth

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

  Diane Glancy

  Important, Path, Speak

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.

  Adam Beach

  War, Nice, Past

  Source: www.chud.com

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• The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

  Chief Seattle

  Bed, Might, Waste

  "Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"".

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• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

  Black Elk

  Circles, Doe, World

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• 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

  Land, Red, Ghost

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8205, Delphi Classics

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• I'm sure you're gonna be taught, if you haven't already, that the people that were here, the Native Americans were beautiful, they were wonderful, they were at one with nature, and these evil white Europeans like Columbus came in and killed them and took them, imprisoned them, stole what was theirs, took it for ourselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Beautiful, White, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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