List Of Native American Quotes

I Wanted A Trumpet Concerto That Reflected Native American Music Because, Well, There Aren't Any. I Looked Around For One But Couldn't Find Anything. So It's A Wide-open Field.

To Say Nothing Is Out Here Is Incorrect; To Say The Desert Is Stingy With Everything Except Space And Light, Stone And Earth Is Closer To The Truth.

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.

Some Native American Writers Enjoy Being Called Native American Writers.

We Are What We Imagine. Our Very Existence Consists In Our Imagination Of Ourselves. Our Best Destiny Is To Imagine, At Least, Completely, Who And What, And That We Are. The Greatest Tragedy That Can Befall Us Is To Go Unimagined.

When Europeans Arrived On This Continent, They Blew It With The Native Americans. They Plowed Over Them, Taking As Much As They Could Of Their Land And Valuables, And Respecting Almost Nothing About The Native Cultures. They Lost The Wisdom Of The Indigenous Peoples-wisdom About The Land And Connectedness To The Great Web Of Life...we Have Another Chance With All These Refugees. People Come Here Penniless But Not Cultureless. They Bring Us Gifts. We Can Synthesize The Best Of Our Traditions With The Best Of Theirs. We Can Teach And Learn From Each Other To Produce A Better America.

I Have Indian Blood In Me. I Have Just Enough White Blood For You To Question My Honesty!

My Forefathers Didn't Come Over On The Mayflower, But They Met The Boat.

Sometimes, If You Stand On The Bottom Rail Of A Bridge And Lean Over To Watch The River Slipping Slowly Away Beneath You, You Will Suddenly Know Everything There Is To Be Known.

If You Look At The Statistics Regarding Native Americans, You Will See That Most Of The Tribes Since The 70s Have Improved Their Economic Situation In Some Form. And This Has Been Brought About By Their Aggressive Assertion Of Their Sovereign Treaty Rights.

There Is Probably A High Percentage Of Native Americans As Well As Non-indians Who Feel That Participating In This Greater American Economy That You Mentioned Is And Has Become A Recipe For Disaster In The Long Term, Because The Response To Social And Environmental Problems Has Been Responded To With A Drug Mentality, Which Is To Say, Anything For The Quick Fix. And It Has Trained The Public To Always Believe They Are One Purchase Away From Happiness.

United States Government Needs To Acknowledge And Respect Our Sovereignty, Treaties, Traditional Native American Values, And Our Human Rights As A People, Which Under The Law As Written We Deserve, And Which Should Be Protected.