Tribal Heritage Quotes

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

She's Cherokee Indian, which is great 'cause whenever we have sex, it rains.

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

Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

I'm just another non-native whose mom told him we were part-Cherokee.

There is perhaps no nation on earth…that produces so fine a race of men as the Kaffers.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to.

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.