Native American Quotes - Page 17

• Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Done, Slavery

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Writing, School, Issues

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

  James W. Loewen

  Giving, Choices, Different

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

  Robert Bly

  Thinking, Culture, Want

  Source: www.utne.com

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• My work to me is more like what the Native Americans say: When we walk upon the earth, we always place our feet very carefully upon the ground, because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from below, and we never forget them. I think as a culture today we've forgotten them. This work is a way to help us remember them. It's a way for us not only to find meaning in our individual lives, but to extend that approach all across the planet. Because if we don't, we won't have a planet.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Culture, Earth

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

  Lisa Bonet

  Talking, Uprising, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Kids, Usa, Culture

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• There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.

  Johnny Depp

  Growing Up, Kids, Pride

  "The Lone Ranger - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Confused, Believe

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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• People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!

  Chance the Rapper

  Girl, Lying, Believe

  "Chance the Rapper remembers 'talking white' and fighting black on Acid rap" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. May 14, 2013.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Facts, Natural, Known

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a Native American actress.

  Julia Jones

  Actresses, Native

  "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

  Duane Chapman

  Christian, Sharks, Problem

  "Exclusive Interview With Duane 'Dog' Chapman". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2007.

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• I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Art, Years, Buying

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• What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

  Sitting Bull

  Lonely, White, Comeback

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

  Julia Jones

  Female, Way, Notable

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• From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

  Jared Polis

  Brother, Arrivals, America

  Jared Polis' at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

  Jared Diamond

  Military, Army, Animal

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• For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  Thinking, Names, Insult To Injury

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• 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.

  Terri Windling

  Music, Tunes, Kind

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• The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were people with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Native American and humanist perspectives, as well as individuals from advocacy groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Center for Law and Justice.

  Charles Haynes

  Christian, Religious, Law

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  The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Rights, Should Have

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independence, Intercourse, Indian

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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