Native American Earth Quotes

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  • 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.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. 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. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

  • Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

    Death   Song   Hero  
    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

  • We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

  • And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

    Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
  • Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

    Quoted in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
  • So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

    Chief Seattle, “This we know”
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

    Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press
  • As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.

  • Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  • Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  • We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.

  • When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

  • It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  • The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

    Life   Travel   Men  
    Chief Seattle, “This we know”
  • The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

    Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press
  • I was born where there were no enclosures.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

    "Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?" by Sheila Shayon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.
  • The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.

    "Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer".
  • If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

  • One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

    "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". Book by Dee Brown. Chapter 12, 1970.
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