Native American Quotes
"With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is
stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to
portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives
of Indians, perhaps people learn something new."
- Sherman Alexie
"It's impossible to write about Native life without humor—that's how people
maintain sanity."
- Louise Erdrich
"It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to
return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those
mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people,
placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish
as at present, and that our name would not become extinct."
- Geronimo
"It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is
powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people,
certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all
continue forever."
- Joy Harjo
MistyLeaf,Elisi Eli, SunniD
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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