Native American Quotes - Page 18

• It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

  Jared Diamond

  Gun, Steel, Causes

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,--and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Discovery, White Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1361, e-artnow

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• When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
  he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Horse, Tents, Pieces

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• Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Ocean, Night

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.225, Xist Publishing

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• It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

  Jared Diamond

  Epidemics, Giving, World

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• New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, New York, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.299, Macmillan

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• I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

  Rick Renzi

  Congress, Native

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• Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

  Yancy Butler

  Names, Figure Skating, Figures

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• Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

  Black Elk

  Circles, Bird, Religion

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

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• Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Crazy, Makeup

  "Eddie Izzard: Circle". Documentary, Comedy, 2000.

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• Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their
  fathers. These laws were good.

  Chief Joseph

  Father, Law, Indian Wisdom

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• A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Military, Thinking

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• When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Winning, Moments

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• On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, New Relationship, Years

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• I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

  Beau Bridges

  Country, West, Relate

  "Q&A with Cast of TNT’s "Into The West"". Interview with Kevin Mark Kline, boston.edgemedianetwork.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

  Harold Geneen

  Work, Achieve, Results

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, p. 86, 1984.

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• The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Sides, Unbelievable, Tragic

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  College, People, Car

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Morning, Lying

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

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• Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

  Tecumseh

  Wise, Abuse, Vision

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

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• Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

  Geronimo

  Live Life, Medieval War, Creator

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• And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Circles, Together

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

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• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

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

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• Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

  Chief Seattle

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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