432 Quotes About Native-american

What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians?" I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again of the history-book pictures. Astronomers and brain surgeons. They should have done brain surgery on Columbus while they had the chance.

Pumpkin compote in a masa shell," she says. "It's a new recipe I'm going to try this week.""So, a pumpkin tamale? You know you can just call it a pumpkin tamale. Nobody's going to be impressed because you used some fancy words."Her mouth turns down. "Thank you for the editorial. Just try it."I take a bite. It's good. Better than I expected. The balance of cinnamon and nutmeg is perfect, a hint of allspice. And some ingredient I can't place. Almost... coppery? But it works.

Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker)

Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world.

There is but one secret to success: never give up.

This time they would find the path to love and to acceptance. This time, she would know and understand the secrets of his heart as well as those of her own.

.. but I know somebody must be thinking about us because if they weren't we'd just disappear just like those Indians who used to climb the pueblos. Those Indians disappeared with food still cooking in the pot and air waiting to be breathed and they turned into birds or dust or the blue of the sky or the yellow of the sun.There they were and suddenly they were forgotten for just a second and for just a second nobody thought about them and then they were gone.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.