Quotes about native-american
native-american thinking done
Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down. Bill Burr
native-american men rocks
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota. Dave Barry
native-american people earth
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Chief Seattle
native-american heart earth
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
native-american web-of-life earth-day
All things are bound together. All things connect.
native-american air water
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
native-american might waste
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
native-american people world
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.
native-american men air
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
native-american law great-american
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. Chief Joseph
native-american men white-man
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
native-american fighting sun
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
native-american fighting great-american
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
native-american grizzly-bears deer
We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
native-american race land
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
native-american dust tree
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.
native-american government years
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! Eddie Izzard
native-american epic film
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
native-american men thinking
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years. Carlos Mencia
native-american circles shapes
I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw. Black Elk
native-american circles world
The power of the world always works in circles.
native-american circles done
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
native-american circles bird
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
native-american circles people
And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
native-american would-be foolish
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
native-american world sacred
Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.
native-american grandfather wish
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
native-american circles doe
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.
native-american eye men
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
native-american thinking people
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package. Chaske Spencer
native-american land people
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia. Vandana Shiva
native-american roots issues
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.
native-american gun steel
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