“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.” FirstsMotherFatherBornGenerationsHollywoodRaisedGreekNativeLos AngelesBorn And RaisedBulgarians Author:Rita Wilson
“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.” FeelsStoriesTodaySchoolRememberMotherFatherParentTakenTaughtImpactHearingAshamedNativeNative AmericanGrandparentMother And FatherReservationsParents And Grandparents Author:Chaske Spencer
“I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.” PeopleWorldChildrenMadeI CanWholeTogetherSpiritMotherFatherSawsSeeingTreeGrewHolyShapesMountainHighestUnderstoodStandingAll ThingsSacredRoundsWideCirclesNativeNative AmericanShelterMother EarthDaylightFloweringNative AmericaNative American IndianStarlightNative American EarthNative American Indian InspirationalSacred ThingsFlowering Trees Author:Black Elk
“I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.” PeopleMenWantHomeBodySpiritMotherFatherWaitingReadyNativeNative AmericanOur FatherBosomsDead ManNative American WisdomGreat SpiritNative AmericaStay With MeGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthNative Wisdom Author:Wovoka
“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.” PeopleIfsMenWantGivingYearsChildrenHas BeensTwoHardWould BeDiesFatherWishMillionsLandBrotherThousandMy FriendsGive MeDollarsEastDrivenMy ChildrenMy BrotherNativeOld ManNative AmericanThousand YearsMillion DollarsSlaughterCattleGreat FatherWish To Die Author:Standing Bear
“The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.” PeopleThinkingRealFatherNationsWhiteCitizensConstitutionBurdenAfrican AmericanNativeNative AmericanFoundingSeals Book:A Torchlight for America Source: A Torchlight for America
“A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.” MenHeartHomeLyingFatherLandExpressionDeeperGravesNativeLogicalLeapPulseSanctityVibrateNative Land Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?” FatherLandNativeNative Land Author:Friedrich Schiller
“Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.” LawFatherNativeNative AmericanOur FatherGreat SpiritNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian Wisdom Author:Chief Joseph
“Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.” SchoolFatherGrewGrew UpBoxesMy TimeBoxingNativeGrandfatherNative AmericanUnclesMy GrandfatherBoxersOklahomaWrestler Author:George Tahdooahnippah