Native American Wisdom Quotes

Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?

~ Anasazi Foundation

Light chases away darkness.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.

~ Dee Brown

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.

~ G.g. Collins

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

~ Charles Alexander Eastman

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.

~ Ben Mikaelsen

Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.

~ Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove.

~ Alan S. Kesselheim

We who lose our footing have lost our way.

~ Anasazi Foundation

Before the war, a white man named Jonathan Edwards came to Stockbridge to teach my people about sin, but I doubt very much he could see sin in this. You defended yourself against a man who would otherwise have killed you and your friends. Perhaps you feel no regret because your spirit knows you did what was right.

~ Pamela Clare

As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.

~ Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

I wish I had been more interested or learned sooner, but I didn’t , and now I must face the consequences.

~ Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly still. Never solid or finished. Always like water flowing from one place to the next. Seed and fruit. Rain and drought, everything traveled in a gigantic circle, an eternal process of becoming something new. But we rarely saw it. Humans tended to see only frozen moments, not the flow of things.

~ Kathleen O'neal Gear