432 Quotes About Native-american

It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who are looking past us for the coyote of our soul and the wolverine of our heart and the crazy crazy man that touches every Indian who spends too much time alone.

Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down completely and lands in Benjamin Lake with a splash and shakes the ground and even wakes up Lester FallsApart who thought it was his father come back to slap his face again.

I am a star falling from the night skyI need you to catch meI am a rainbow lifting from a dark cloudI need you to see me

There are 566 Indian tribes, bands, and Alaska Native villages recognized by the BIA, and no one could be expected to know the name of every one.

I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can't affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.

Disadvantages faced by indigenous peoples are related to dispossession and exacerbated by powerlessness and poverty.

...people should have the right to be who they are and not what others tell them to be. All peoples should have a right to dignity and identity is an important part of this ideal.

We need a seat at the table … If we’re not at the table, we’re probably on the menu.

We are only atoms trailing the carved skull wrapped inside a sunbeam.