Quotes on Great Native American

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

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

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.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.