When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Tecumsah, Shawnee quote.

All cruelty stems from weakness. Seneca quote.

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one and everything we see here is something like the shadow of that one. Black Elk, Oglala Lakota quote.

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses, railways or clothing or food that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion. Sitting Bull quote.

If two different bowls both get the job done, then what difference does it make if one bowl is dark and another is pale? Hopi quote.

Each bird loves to hear himself sing. Arapaho quote.

The Indians were religious from the first moments of life…the mother’s spiritual influence was supremely important. Charles Alexander Eastman, Santee Sioux quote.

A man must make his own arrows. Winnebago quote.

The more often you ask how much farther you have to go, the longer your quest will feel. Seneca tribe quote.