John Fusco Quotes

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here, and it was practically a segregated kind of thing.

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.

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

This land was our land; it was taken from us illegally …. John Smith did not bring a civilization here. There was already civilization here…. We should have burned the boat and killed them. all.

… there's no axiom of history to substantiate the necessity of the people returning to country they left Nineteenth centuries before.

Our purpose is not to interfere with the laws and customs which are beneficial to your people.

The classics should be set in students’ minds so that they become the genes of Chinese national culture.

I bought the rights to 'Ready, Steady, Go!' several years ago because I didn't want the segments to be chopped up and sold off. I thought the shows should be left intact.

If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

Civilisations which get cut off from their traditions and values do not survive for long.

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

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.

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 have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and out of that. I get really into it, and then I put it down, but it's surrounding me.

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.