Learn about the histories of Native and Indigenous people with these inspirational quotes.
"May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong." —"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
" —"Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty." —"When you begin a great work, you can't expect to finish it all at once. Therefore, do you and your brothers press on, and let nothing discourage you 'til you have entirely finished what you have begun.
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