Native Americans Quotes


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"I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog."

- Sitting Bull

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing

- Alexis de Tocqueville

You can`t have all chiefs, you`ve got to have Indians too

- American Proverb

Vegetarian - that`s an old Indian word meaning `lousy hunter`

- Andy Rooney

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he 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. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

- Chief Joseph

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

- Chief Joseph

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

- Red Cloud

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

- Robert Orben

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

- Stewart L. Udall