Quotes About Native American Culture

#1. Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

Thomas Haden Church

#2. This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.

Marc Forgione

#3. Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#4. A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Thurston Moore

#5. Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

Sherman Alexie

#7. No.' Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. 'This is just the beginning, you'll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.

Natalie Crown

#8. Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Luke Rhinehart

#9. A thief might steal from anyone.
Why he's stealing from you is what you need to understand.

Brownell Landrum

#10. In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe.

Tatanka

#11. People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.

Serena Williams

#12. You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Sherman Alexie

#13. America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

Will Rogers