What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

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.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

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.

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.

Horsemanship and the cowboy lifestyle and my culture as a Native American are all three things that are very, very important to me.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

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