Chaske Spencer Quotes

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

God made me an Indian.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.

I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

I am Hualapai. We are located in Northern Arizona, at the Grand Canyon. We own the Skywalk area.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

The Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable … right to the lands they occupy.

I'm half Native American and half Mexican and I support all native peoples around the world.

Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.

The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.

United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.

November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country's beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.

I'm probably as royal as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee.

When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.

Of course, I have been influenced by my Punjabi and Hariyanvi roots.

I believe that the FCC and Tribal Nations share the same goal-ensuring high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it, while respecting and preserving sites with historic, religious, and cultural significance to Tribes.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.