Native Quotes - Page 35

• Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

  Winona LaDuke

  Fighting, Australia, Land

  "Native American Activist Winona LaDuke on Use of 'Geronimo' as Code for Osama bin Laden: 'The Continuation of the Wars Against Indigenous People'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. May 6, 2011.

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• I believe, as a Puerto Rican, that the majority of Puerto Ricans want to be Puerto Ricans. Once we become annexed to the United States or by the United States, that we will lose our national identity. I can look at Hawaii as an example of people who lose, the Natives who lose their identity. I can look into the Native American reservations and see people who lose their national identity, their culture, their language, their land. And that's what's going to happen to Puerto Ricans here.

  Oscar Lopez Rivera

  Believe, Native American, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that there are times when Puertoricans think, "Oh, we are blessed with the relationship with the U.S." But the end result will not be that. If Puerto Rico becomes similar to Hawaii - well, the Hawaiian Native population is about 9 percent. And if we go to the prisons, the overwhelming majority of the prisoners are the Natives. So I can anticipate that Puerto Ricans will not be better off by the annexation of the U.S. of Puerto Rico. I also know for a fact that once any nation or any people lose their identity, their language, their lifestyles, that they are a little dehumanized.

  Oscar Lopez Rivera

  Blessed, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that I'm reaching a point in my life and in my career where soon it will be important for me to get out of the way and let younger, hungrier, more interesting people do what it is that I do. Maine is a wonderful place to hide, because no one ever looks for you there. And the goal of every person in Maine, whether native or from away, seems to be to mitigate as possible all human interaction. So it's a good place to disappear in.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.

  Christian Karlson Stead

  Language, Problem, Speakers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally about the world, not about human individuals. A myth needn't include any humans at all. If it does include them, they're usually minor characters - imaginary humans sent out like scouts to report back on what's happening in the mythworld, but not central participants in the action.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Character, Literature, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Native American, Violence, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.

  Sarah Vowell

  Real, Protest, Warmth

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are not the center of the universe and that we think we are will most likely be the end of us. Then nature will go on its way, with humans only being a faint ugly memory. And yes I am fond of animals or most of them.

  John Lurie

  Memories, Native American, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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, Native American, Ironic

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• Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Country, Men, White Man

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• I have built my world through Native American mythology.

  Tori Amos

  Native American, World, Mythology

  "This much I know: Tori Amos". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Native American, Aboriginal

  "Portrait of the artist: Tori Amos, musician". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2010.

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• Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

  Maya Angelou

  Book, Native American, Black History

  "Maya Angelou: 'Barack Obama has done a remarkable job'" by Hugh Muir, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

  Dave Attell

  Native American, Kids, Pardon Me

  "Random Rules: Dave Attell". Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. February 01, 2008.

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• What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spring, Heaven, Earth

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• Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Keys, Sri Lanka

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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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

  Native American, Musical, World

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• In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

  Bob Beauprez

  Doors, Hands, Cities

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• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  Daniel Boone

  Spring, Blessing, Hands

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

  Beau Bridges

  Country, Native American, West

  "Q&A with Cast of TNT’s "Into The West"". Interview with Kevin Mark Kline, boston.edgemedianetwork.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Cutting, Science, Men

  1953 'The Sense of Human Dignity', lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Mar.

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• Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Needs, Crafts

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Way, Feels

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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