Native American Tribe

Famous quotes containing the words native, american and/or tribe:

    “The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
    If thou the spirit give by which I pray;
    My unassisted heart is barren clay,
    Which of its native self can nothing feed;”
    —Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564)

    “It is as often a weakness in the aged to dictate to the young, as it is folly in the young to slight the warnings of the aged.”
    —H., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 230-3 (May 1828)

    “Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)