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• My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

  Will Rogers

  Ancestry, Boat, Mets

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

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Blood, White

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• A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'

  Black Hawk

  Success, Heart, Fighting

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Children, Parent, Pieces

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• This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.

  Marc Forgione

  Kids, Warrior, Men

  "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Art, Rain, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Father, Real, Thinking

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Eagles, Justice

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• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  Beau Bridges

  Epic, Film, Tales

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sheep, Government, Law

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• The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, Earth

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• We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully and I hope a lot of people get a sense of that; not to take away that we also have that warrior spirit.

  Adam Beach

  Spiritual, Warrior, People

  Source: www.chud.com

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• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  Florence King

  Dream, Mistake, Errors

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

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• If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962; later quoted in Ms. Magazine, August 1972.

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• Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don’t know.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Voice, Track

  "The Demigod Diaries (The Heroes of Olympus)". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.

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• We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Moving, Writing

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

  Sitting Bull

  Wind, People, Buffalo

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• I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

  John Wayne

  Country, Believe, Responsibility

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• I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim to know what is best for mankind. Wakan Tanka and Grandfather alone know what is best, and this is why, even though I am worried, my attitude is not overcome with fear of the future. I submit always to Wakan Tanka's will. This is not easy, and most people find it impossible, but I have seen the power of Prayer and I have seen God's desires fulfilled. So I pray always that God will give me wisdom to accept his way of doing things.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Prayer, Attitude, Men

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• I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Funny Thanksgiving, Soy, Vegan

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• I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

  Walter Wager

  Jobs, Work, Married

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• I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Heritage, Proud, Native

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. May 14, 2012.

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• Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Stories, Born, Has Beens

  "Who is Elizabeth Warren?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2012.

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• I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

  Wanda Sykes

  Baseball, Thinking, Cleveland

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• You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Deserve You, Giving, Paper

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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