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Tribal Chief Inspirational Quotes (296)

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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
Sitting Bull
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All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
Chief Joseph
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Brothers, we must be united we must smoke the same pipe we must fight each other's battles and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
Tecumseh
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Hokahey! Today is a good day to die.
Crazy Horse
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
Black Elk
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When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
Chief Joseph
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
Sitting Bull
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
Chief Joseph
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I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
Black Elk
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The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
Red Cloud
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Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
Chief Seattle
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Conquering the world on horseback is easy it is dismounting and governing that is hard.
Genghis Khan
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
Black Elk
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May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.
Chief Dan George
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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
Chief Seattle
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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Chief Joseph
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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Geronimo
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
Chief Joseph
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Take only memories, leave only footprints.
Chief Seattle
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Big name often stands on small legs.
Chief Joseph
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Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.
Wilma Mankiller
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Know the Power that is Peace.
Black Elk
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
Sitting Bull
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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
Black Elk
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