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Tribal Chief Inspirational Quotes (296)

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All things are our relatives what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
Black Elk
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In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
Wilma Mankiller
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Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
Red Cloud
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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
Chief Seattle
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We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.
Chief Seattle
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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk
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Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.
Victorio
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Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.
Black Elk
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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
Chief Seattle
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
Chief Joseph
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It takes few words to tell the truth.
Chief Joseph
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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
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We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.
Chief Joseph
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
Black Elk
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull
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It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything then he knows that world which is real.
Black Elk
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A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
Black Elk
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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
Sitting Bull
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You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
Black Elk
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When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.
Black Elk
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Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.
Black Kettle
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I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.
Genghis Khan
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First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land
Chief Dan George
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May you always walk in Beauty.
Black Elk
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