~*~ Native American Indain Quotes ~*~
to worship and serve the Great Spirit.
If there is but one religion, why do you
white people differ so much about it?
Why not all agreed, as you can all
read the Book?
Sogoyewapha, "Red Jacket" - Senaca Brother
"This war did not spring up on our land,
this war was brought upon us by the
children of the Great Father who came to
take our land without a price, and who,
in our land, do a great many evil things...
This war has come from robbery - from the
stealing of our land."
Spotted Tail
"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."
John Wooden Legs, Cheyenne
"You ask me to plow the ground. Shall
I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom?
Then when I die she will not take me to
her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig
for stones! Shall I dig under her skin
for bones?
Then when I die I cannot enter her body
to be born again. "You ask me to cut
grass and make hay and sell it and be
rich like white men, but how dare I cut
my mother's hair? "I want my people to
stay with me here. All the dead men will
come to life again. Their spirits will
come to their bodies again. We must wait
here in the homes of our fathers and be
ready to meet them in the bosom of our
mother."
Wovoka, Paiute
"Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a
very large house.They told me it was
a bank and that the white men place
their money there to be taken care of,
and that by and by they got it back with
interest."We are Indians and we have no
such bank; but when we have plenty of
money or blankets,we give them away to
other chiefs and people,and by and by
they return them with interest,
and our hearts feel good.
Our way of giving is our bank."
Chief Maquinna, Nootka
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