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• Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Silence, Mind

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• I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Hair, Black, Different

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

  Chaske Spencer

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

  Neal Barnard

  War, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

  Alan Robinson

  Ancestry, Knows, Native

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• Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Musical, World, Proud

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• Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.

  Ten Bears

  Children, Heart, Names

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• Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humor, Leaving, Intellectual

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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  They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

  Sitting Bull

  Mother, Environmental, Use

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

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• What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Men, White Man

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• When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

  Sitting Bull

  Warrior, Boys, Men

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• I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Uplifting, Memorial Day

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• 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.

  Nicolas Cage

  Country, Visitors, Feels

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• One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.

  Chief Dan George

  Animal, Remember, One Thing

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• Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, White Man, India

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• What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, White Man, Land

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• There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Issues

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• In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Integrity, Government, Culture

  Winona LaDuke (2016). “Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming”, p.10, Haymarket Books

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• When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

  Philipp Meyer

  People, Peaceful, Different

  "Philipp Meyer on 'The Son'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. June 8, 2013.

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• No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

  Nas

  Italian, African American, Matter

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Culture, Exotic

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.117, The New Press

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• Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Growing Up, Illinois, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2005.

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• Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Good Day, Energy, Gone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Thinking, Stronger

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

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• Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Ironic, Population

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