Lakota Sioux Indian Tribe Quotes

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

History is a novel whose author is the people.

Don't ever forget the history! It will make and change who we are!

It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

My country has no history, only a past.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.