Native American Wisdom

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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In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
— Hopi proverb

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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
— Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota

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The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that Creation is going on in your sight.
— N. Scott Momaday

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Do not allow anger to poison you.
— Hopi proverb

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To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature — the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.
— Dee Brown

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After dark, all cats are leopards.
— Zuni proverb

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In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
— N. Scott Momaday

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In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred — everything is for sale.
— Oren Lyons

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What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men.
— Massasoit

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It is senseless to fight when you cannot hope to win.
— Apache proverb

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As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
— Hyemeyohsts Storm

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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
— Tecumseh, Shawnee

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If you wonder often, the gift of understanding will come.
— Arapaho proverb

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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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Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant.
— Winona LaDuke

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Man has responsibility, not power.
— Tuscarora proverb

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The media is saturated but the Sweetgrass still grows tall
And Jesse John Blackbear talks to God in Cleveland, O-hi-yo
And Washington is joking but the Navajos are not
And Mother Earth keeps on giving while we're ripening.
— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace.
— Frank Fools Crow

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One foe is too many and a hundred friends too few.
— Hopi proverb

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Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
— Louise Erdrich

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