Quotes on Native American Earth

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

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

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.

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

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.