Native American Wisdom

@NativeAmWisdom

Doing what we can to keep Native American words, wisdom, and traditions alive. Woksape Wokikta. Proverbs, quotes, & storytelling are all part of our heritage.

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  1. 4 minutes ago

    And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.— Louise Erdrich

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Misfortune happens even to the wisest and best men. — Omaha Tribe proverb NativeAmerican wisdom

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  3. 3 hours ago

    I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. — Geronimo quotes

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message, just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes, become who you are. — Leonard Peltier

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  5. 7 hours ago

    Strive to be a person who is never absent from an important act. — Osage proverb

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  6. 9 hours ago

    Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers. — Tecumseh, Shawnee

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  7. 12 hours ago

    Teachers not only teach, but they also learn. — Sauk proverb NativeAmerican wisdom quotes

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  8. 12 hours ago

    I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated. — Russell Means

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  9. 21 hours ago

    Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. — Red Cloud quotes

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  10. Mar 3

    Nothing lives long, only the earth and mountains. — Dee Brown

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  11. Mar 3

    Not all danger comes with a warning. — Cheyenne proverb NativeAmerican wisdom quotes

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  12. Mar 3

    Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Standing Bear

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  13. Mar 3

    Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. — Louise Erdrich

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  14. Mar 3

    There can never be peace between nations until it is first known that true peace is within the souls of men. — Oglala proverb

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  15. Mar 3

    "Why don't you talk and go straight and all will be well?" — Black Kettle (1803-1868), Southern Cheyenne

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  16. Mar 3

    Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? — Tecumseh, Shawnee NativeAmerican wisdom quotes

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  17. Mar 3

    Speak the truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man. — Lakota proverb

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  18. Mar 2

    Hokahey! Today is a good day to die. — Crazy Horse quotes

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  19. Mar 2

    I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. — N. Scott Momaday quotes

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  20. Mar 2

    If two different bowls both get the job done, what difference does the color make? — Hopi proverb

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