Native Americans Quotes

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins. Our first teacher is our own heart. Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
Cheyenne

We are made from Mother Earth and we go back to Mother Earth. It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.
Shenandoah

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.
Native American Indian Proverb

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
Oglala Sioux

We must return to the level of trust our ancestors had with their children.
David Wilkins Lumbee

Power comes from the heart...your head will run away from you, but your heart is always with you.
Curly Bear Wagner. Blackfoot

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born .We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
Qwatsinas

Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who inhabit it, and the respect and acknowledgement of the spirits and elders. That is what it is to be Indian.
Navajo White Feather

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
Jan Morris

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart L. Udall

It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it.
Native American Proverb

The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.
Chief Nez Perces Joseph

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
Chief Joseph, Nez Perces Tribe

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
Geronimo, Chiracahua Apache Indian Tribe

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Native American Chief Joseph

The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the blood of our ancestors.
Chief Plenty Coups

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Luther Standing Bear

As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
Ohiyesa

Civilized people depend too much on man-made pages. I turn to the Great Spirit's book which is the whole of his creation.
Tatanga Mani

Some of our chiefs make the claim that the land belongs to us. It is not what the Great Spirit told me. He told me that the lands belong to Him, that no people own the land ...
Kickapoo Kanakuk

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee

When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.
Lakota

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
Minquass






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