Native American Quotes - Page 2

• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Medicine, Giving

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you.

  Denise Linn

  Way, Messages, Should

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'

  Tecumseh

  Summer, Country, Giving Up

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• If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

  Sitting Bull

  Inspirational, Men, Looks

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• It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

  Sitting Bull

  Animal, Yield, Land

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.

  Wovoka

  Satisfaction In Life, Giving, Satisfaction

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• Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.

  Chief Dan George

  Harmony, American Indian, Indian Wisdom

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• The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Nature, Men, Hands

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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• To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

  Leonard Peltier

  Respect, Time, Children

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• An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Race, Government, Blood

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• We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

  Chief Joseph

  Fighting, American Indian, Great American

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• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Dog, Struggle

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• Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspiring, Courage, Nature

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Nature, Owl, Crow

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• Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

  Terri Farley

  Tongue, Deaf, American Indian

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• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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• Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, Sight, Sitting

  "God Is Red: A Native View of Religion". Book by Vine Deloria, Jr., 1972.

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• The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press

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• The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted. The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growth may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.

  Wooden Leg

  Prayer, Teaching, Sadness

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• I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, White Man, India

  "God Is Red: A Native View of Religion". Book by Vine Deloria, Jr., 1972.

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

  Tecumseh

  Views, Demand, Trouble

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.

  Spotted Tail

  Children, Father, Spring

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• Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

  Maya Angelou

  Book, Black History, Taught

  "Maya Angelou: 'Barack Obama has done a remarkable job'" by Hugh Muir, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2012.

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