Quotes by Native American The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. Mary Brave Bird mothernative-americaninspirational Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known. Mary Anne Radmacher native-americanopportunitythinking 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. Mary Pipher web-of-lifelandnative-american What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him? Massasoit mothernative-americanchildren 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 black-historynative-americanbook When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men. Mark Twain native-americanmenson This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed. Michael Bloomberg citiesdreamnative-american I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native American society would no longer be accessible. What I object to is making kitsch of things that are very serious. Michael Dorris humilitynative-americanpast Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. Michael Tippett scorenative-americanart Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Michael Shermer native-americanscienceschool I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American? Michael Scott greeknative-americanpeople I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn’t have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful. Mike Carey teamnamesnative-american Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. Mikhail Baryshnikov musicalnative-americanworld In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance. Misty Upham warriorheronative-american Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence. Mourning Dove marijuanapurposenative-american 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. N. Scott Momaday destinyimaginationnative-american No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. Nas african-americanitaliannative-american It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil. Nate Parker healingnative-americanpeople The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. Neal Barnard native-americananimalwar I knew that the black struggle wasn't my struggle. But I felt like it was my-struggle-adjacent, you know? I've always said that if you turn the dial in one direction, a Muslim is a Jew is an East Asian person is a Native American and so on. I feel very much that all of these struggles are kind of the same and - Hillary Clinton actually said this recently - when you get rid of one barrier, it opens up the gates for a whole bunch of people you didn't even know would benefit from it. So not fighting for the black struggle is like not fighting for the Muslim struggle. Negin Farsad fightingstrugglenative-american«910111213141516171819»
