Native American Dream Quotes

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  • If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

  • Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

    Death   Song   Hero  
    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • 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.

  • Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  • I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

    Two   Vision   Would Be  
  • To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

    Seattle (Chief), Johhny Mohawk (1984*). “Rede eines Indianers: "könnt ihr denn mit der Erde tun was ihr wollt?"”
  • It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  • Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the 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.

    Love   Life   Peace  
  • From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

    Quoted in Herbert J. Spinden, The Nez Perce Indians (1908)
  • Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

  • Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

    Mourning Dove (1994). “Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography”, p.69, U of Nebraska Press
  • The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

    Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press
  • He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

    "God Is Red: A Native View of Religion". Book by Vine Deloria, Jr., 1972.
  • If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

    "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.
  • I cured with the power that came through me.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • The power of the world always works in circles.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

    Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
  • The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

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

  • All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

    Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
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