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Quote by Chief Dan George

“Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.”

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Chief Dan George, born Daniel George, was a Canadian Indigenous author, actor, and activist. He was born on July 24, 1899, and passed away on September 23, 1981. George is renowned for his contributions to literature and film, particularly for his profound insights and advocacy for Indigenous culture. more

“We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.”

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Author:Chief Dan George

“The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too.”

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Author:Quanah Parker

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

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Author:John Ross

“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? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.”