Native American Quotes and Proverbs...

Native American Quotes and Proverbs

" ...everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it,
and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence."
- Mourning Dove Salish
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"I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees
as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling."
- Geronimo, Chiracahua Apache
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"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know
each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what
you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys."
- Chief Dan George
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"Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins."
- A Cheyenne Proverb
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"One finger cannot lift a pebble."
- A Hopi Proverb
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"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."
- A Navajo Proverb
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"We learned to be patient observers like the owl.
We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,
who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory.
But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its
indomitable spirit."
- Tom Brown, Jr., The Tracker
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"The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being.
The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away
and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies."
- Mary Brave Bird
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"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
- A Native American Proverb
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"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled
with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for
a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
- Chief Aupumut, Mohican
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"You already possess everything necessary to become great."
- A Crow Proverb
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"Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may not remember.
Involve me and I’ll understand."
- A Native American Proverb
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"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave."
- A Dakota Proverb