Native American Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

  Black Elk

  World, Sacred, Center Of The World

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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, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

  Black Elk

  Strong, Circles, Long

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

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• We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries - we have a responsibility to see that the gospel touches their hearts and minds and that they understand it.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Country, Responsibility, Heart

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• The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it has done the Jews, though the Jews have not been darkened in their skin as have the Lamanites.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Israel, People, House

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• making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world.

  Robbie Robertson

  World, Noise, Ass

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• 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

  Brother, Fighting, Battle

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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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• We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black and whites, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, Christian, Jew, Muslim, and every religion - straight or gay, male or female - we must stand together. This country belongs to all of us.

  Bernie Sanders

  Christian, Country, Gay

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's the first thing liberals notice about people is what group are you in! "What group do I put you in? Are you a woman? Are you lesbian? Are you straight? Are you Native American? Are you African-American? Are you a mix? What are you?" That's how they see people, because that then identifies the victim status they hold. Victims of what? Victims of America! All these people are victims of America, "the white, patriarchal majority." They're all victims of America, as the left sees them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Victim, Native

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And there's so much talent to be cast. There really is. We saw some really good readings. There's more talent to be had there.

  Kelly Reichardt

  Reading, Talent, Native

  Source: www.mtv.com

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

  Jacoby Ellsbury

  Thinking, White, Half

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• The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal. For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.

  Black Elk

  Animal, Air, Eagles

  John Gneisenau Neihardt, Black Elk, Raymond J. DeMallie (1984). “The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years, the danger was to everybody near us, slaves, Native Americans, Mexicans. It finally expanded in 1898 to the Caribbean, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Years, Cuba

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

  Geronimo

  Inspirational, Life, Wind

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• In fact, Native American Rights Fund has a project called the Supreme Court Project. And quite frankly, it's focused on trying to keep cases out of the Supreme Court. This Supreme Court, Justice Roberts is actually, hard to believe, was probably worse than the Rehnquist Court. If you look at the few decisions that it's issued.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Believe, Justice, Decision

  "American Indians Confront 'Savage Anxieties'". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. December 26, 2014.

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• No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.

  John Shelton Reed

  Media, African American, Groups

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