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Truth does
not happen, it just is.
-HOPI-
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find
that money cannot be eaten...
The ones
that matter most are the children. They are the true human beings.
-LAKOTA (SIOUX) -
We are here
now, have been here for thousands of years,
and will always be here. We have fooled them all.
-GEORGE HORSE CAPTURE-
With all things and
in all things, we are relatives.
-LAKOTA ( SIOUX) -
Wars are fought to
see who owns the land, but in the end it possesses man.
Who dares say he owns it- is he not buried beneath it?"
-COCHISE , CHIRICAHUA APACHE-
If you see no reason
for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
-MINQUASS-
You might as well
expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should
be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
-CHIEF JOSEPH-
I buried (my father) in that beautiful valley of the winding waters.
I love that land more than all the rest of the world.
-CHIEF JOSEPH-
When I was a boy
the ( Lakotas) owned the world;
the sun rose and set on their land.
-CHIEF SITTING BULL-
We want no white man here, the Black Hills belong to me.
If the whites try to take them, I will fight.
-CHIEF SITTING BULL-
I wish to know why commissioners are sent out to us who do nothing
but rob us and get the riches of this world awy from us.
-CHIEF RED CLOUD-
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
-CHIEF RED CLOUD-
The soldiers never
explained to the goverment when a Indian was wronged,
but reported the missdeeds of the Indians. We took an oath
not to do any wrong to each other or to scheme against each other.
-GERONIMO-
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not
have created us.
There is one God lookingdown on us all. We are all the children of one
God.
The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to
say.
-GERONIMO-
"We did not
ask you white men to come here.
The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home.
You had yours. We did not interfere with you.
The Great Spirit gave us plenty of land to live on,
and buffalo, deer, antelope and other game.
But you have come here, you are taking my land from me,
you are killing off our game, so it is hard for us to live.
Now, you tell us to work for a living,
but the Great Spirit did not make us to work,
but to live by hunting. You white men can work if you want to.
We do not interfere with you,
and again you say why do you not become civilized?
We do not want your civilization!
We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them."
"Chief Crazy Horse"
"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."
"Ancient
Indian Proverb"
How smooth must be the language of the whites,
when they can make right look like wrong, and
wrong like right.
- Black Hawk, Sauk
No tribe has the
right to sell, even to each other,
much less to strangers... Sell a country!
Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth?
Didn't the Great Spirit make them all
for the use of his children?
- Tecumseh, Shawnee
When a favor is shown
to a white man, he feels it in his head
and the tongue speaks out;
when a kindness is shown to an Indian, he feels it in his heart
and the heart has no tongue.
- SHOSHONE
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Remember that your
children are not your own,
but are lent to you by the creator.
"Mohawk proverb"
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