Native Quotes

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death.

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

The power of the world always works in circles.

The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful.

The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that.

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

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

Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts….Now we are together again to make peace.

My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.

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.