Native Quote #58

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

Robert Orden

Native Quote #57

"Among the Indians there have been no written laws. Customs handed down from generation to generation have been the only laws to guide them. Every one might act different from what was considered right did he choose to do so, but such acts would bring upon him the censure of the Nation... This fear of the Nation's censure acted as a mighty band, binding all in one social, honorable compact."

 Kah-ge-ga-bowh (George Copway) Ojibwa Chief

 

Native Quote #56

"The Great Spirit gave us plenty of land to live on, and buffalo, deer, antelope and other game. But you have come here; you are taking my land from me; you are killing off our game, so it is hard for us to live ... and again you say, why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them."

 Tȟašúŋke Witkó  (Crazy Horse), Oglala Lakota

Native Quote #55

"The role of food is important, but it's gotten to the point where we become gluttons...We could spend a lot more time really thinking about what's going on in our world and giving more thanks."  

Chief Flying Eagle, Mashpee Wampanoa

Native Quote #54

"May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong."

Geswanouth Slahoot (Chief Dan George), Tsleil-Waututh Nation 

Native Quote #53

"The rascality was that they came to take the land so cheap; 

that is what I call rascality."

  

Wakinyan Ska, (White Thunder), Wazhazha Lakota

Native Quote #52

"Potawatomi people lived off the land for over 9,000 years, but you'd need someone with a doctorate in Anthropology to find traces of them. If you did the same...today, our traces would be obvious for millions of years." 

 

 Johnny Flynn, Potawatomi