“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 ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.” EarthMotherDiesAsksCuttingTearsAskingAsk MeSoilNativeTake MeKnivesNative AmericanBosomsNative American WisdomNative AmericaGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthNative WisdomPlowing Author:Wovoka
“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.” WayStatesFactsMotherSidesUnitedUnited StatesCircumstancesOffersChiefsAfrican AmericanIndianNativeGrandfatherNative AmericanIndian Chief Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.” PeopleFeelsHeartReasonRealityEarthMotherChanceSorryReason WhyNativeNative AmericanSweetnessMother EarthGood Heart Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.” ThinkingFirstsChildrenUsedMotherFeltSidesTaughtConnectedCreditForestsNativeNative AmericanCathedrals Author:Alice Walker