Native American Quotes - Page 9

• There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans--who were not allowed to learn to read and write--and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Writing, Ignorance

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). "LOS PEORES AÑOS DE NUESTRAS VIDAS", Pantheon

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• The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

  Alice Walker

  Madre, Hijos, Pensar

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.

  Andrew Jackson

  Desire, Essentials, Foxes

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• Es terapia. [La gente dice que la verdadera curación requiere una confrontación honesta, y eso se puede ver a gran escala con Estados Unidos y las cosas que se han barrido bajo la alfombra, ya sea con los nativos americanos o la esclavitud, o cualquier holocausto que haya ocurrido en este suelo.

  Nate Parker

  Healing, People, Holocaust

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

  Henry David Thoreau

  World, Made, Indian

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1843, Delphi Classics

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• Se celebró un consejo regular con los indios, que habían llegado en sus ponis, y ambas partes pronunciaron discursos a través de un intérprete, tal y como se ha descrito; los indios, como de costumbre, llevaban ventaja en cuanto a verdad y seriedad, y por lo tanto en elocuencia. El jefe más destacado se llamaba Pequeño Cuervo. Estaban bastante descontentos con el trato que les dispensaba el hombre blanco, y probablemente tenían motivos para estarlo.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White Man, Crow

  Henry David Thoreau (1974). "La correspondencia de Henry David Thoreau", Greenwood Pub Group

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• Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

  Jay Leno

  Dinner, Bunch, Pilgrim

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• El poder del mundo siempre trabaja en círculos.

  Alce Negro

  Circles, World, Cherokee

  Alce Negro (2000). "Black Elk Speaks: La vida de un hombre sagrado de los sioux oglala", Bison Books.

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• Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

  Salman Rushdie

  Giving, Encounters, Fiction

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• Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.

  George Tahdooahnippah

  Uncles, Father, School

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• Mientras la niebla te envuelva, estate quieto. Quédate quieto hasta que la luz del sol se cuele y disipe la niebla, como seguramente ocurrirá. Entonces actúa con valentía.

  Jefe Águila Blanca

  Long, Pieces, Sunlight

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• En nombre de los hipócritas, los médicos han inventado la forma de tortura más exquisita jamás conocida por el hombre: la supervivencia.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Hypocrite, Men

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• I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Laughter, Thinking, Culture

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" por Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. 14 de agosto de 2012.

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• I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Missionary, Christianity, Clergy

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.186

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

  Jefe Joseph

  Men, White, Want

  Discurso en el Lincoln Hall de Washington D.C., 14 de enero de 1879.

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• The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names, Lakes, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.680, Delphi Classics

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• Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

  Washington Irving

  Eye, Garden, Luxury

  "Traits of Indian character". Book by Washington Irving, 1819.

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• I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

  Rick Yancey

  Thinking, Silence, Encounters

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.36, Penguin

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

  Tecumseh

  Summer, Powerful, Men

  Quoted in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

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• La voz del Gran Espíritu se oye en el gorjeo de los pájaros, en la ondulación de las poderosas aguas y en la dulce respiración de las flores.

  Zitkala-Sa

  Dios, Dulce, Naturaleza

  Zitkala-Sa (2014). "American Indian Stories", p.109, Ediciones Diderot.

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• Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me; I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him, "Joseph has some good horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell." My neighbor answers, "Pay me the money and I will sell you Joseph's horses." The white man returns to me and says, "Joseph, I have bought your horses and you must let me have them." If we sold our lands to the government, this is the way they bought them.

  Jefe Joseph

  I Like You, Horse, Men

  Arguing against the right of the US Government to force his people to leave their lands, 1876.

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• By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.

  John Ross

  Pursuit, Civilized, Has Beens

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• Sé que el Gran Espíritu me está mirando desde arriba y escuchará lo que digo.

  Toro Sentado

  Spirit, Knows, Looking Down

  Toro Sentado, Mark Diedrich (1998). "Toro Sentado: The Collected Speeches"

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• Cualquier estadounidense que esté dispuesto a presentarse a las elecciones presidenciales debería quedar automáticamente, por definición, inhabilitado para hacerlo jamás.

  Gore Vidal

  Life, Running, Political

  Facebook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 17, 2010

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• Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

  Michael Shermer

  School, Science, Intelligent

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