Quotes on Cherokee

My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

The power of the world always works in circles.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.