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"Make the kids a nutritious lunch. I'll teach you how to make a good Indian sandwich: You take a bread. Don Burnstick, Comedian, Lunchtime at Headstart |
"She Defends"
Jeremy Red Star Wolf, Cayuse / Walla Walla / Umatilla
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"Each child should have the fundamental right, a constitutional right,
whether it's a tribal constitutional right, federal or state constitutional
right. It's time we made our constitutions have our children's rights in
them so they can engage in those experiences that he or she is most anxious
to explore, because it is having the right to choose that is truly indigenous
to the democratic concept."
David Wilkins, Lumbee |
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Red Yellow Blue |
"We have to pick things that our people have left along the trail. Everything wasn't passed down. Too many of
our people died too quick back then. They didn't have time to pass it all down. So we Indians today have to
go back and find the things that got left along the trail. It's up to us to go back and pick them up. We
have to educate ourselves to know who we are. That's what I mean when I say, 'Teach the children.' The
Grandfathers and Grandmothers are in the children. If we educate them right, our children tomorrow will be wiser
than we are today. They're the Grandfathers and Grandmothers of tomorrow."
Eddie Benton-Banai, Ojibwe |
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"For the Odawa, winter (biboon) faces north and is a time
when the elders (kikaa) of the tribe teach and tell stories
so that traditions can be passed on to the youth. It is a
sublime and beautiful way to honor and welcome the different
seasons of the year, as well as life from birth to old age
and ‘walking on.’” Gail Hosner, Odawa
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Winter Count |
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Quotes page backgrounds credited in large part to: Robert Kaufman Fabrics: http://www.robertkaufman.com/
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