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The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be elected for office.
In New Mexico, we're very lucky that we have laws in place that really help ensure that Native Americans' right to vote is unencumbered.
I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.
My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses and pipes.
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
It is a great honor for me to be able to team up with the Jr. NBA to help continue develop basketball talent in my native Dominican Republic.
I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.
In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.
Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.
At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.
I travel way too much to have any pets. But if I could have one, I'd want a quokka. They're basically small kangaroos native to Western Australia.
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.
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
As an Elizabeth native, I believe it is my duty to give back to my community. Our youth is our future, and it truly takes a village to raise a child.
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.
My favourite dish is from Congo, the native country of my father. It's called Poulet a la Dakatine and is made from chicken, peanut butter and spinach.
Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.
I have observed Afghani people and their Urdu is not as chaste as it should be and that reflects in the way they speak. Their native language is Pashtun.
If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.
On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.
It's taken over 240 years for there to be a Native American woman elected to congress, so it's definitely significant that we were able to accomplish that.
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.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it; I'm very proud to be a West Virginian.
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'
I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.