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Mary Brave Bird Quotes

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

Mary Brave Bird
Inspirational, Mother, Native American
Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Mary Brave Bird
Law, Mind, Purpose

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Mary Brave Bird
Political, Moral, Force

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Mary Brave Bird
War, Lasts, Environment
Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.274, Grove Press

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

Mary Brave Bird
Time, Mean, Men
Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.37, Grove Press

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Mary Brave Bird
White, Class, Use
"Lakota Woman". Book by Mary Brave Bird edited by Richard Erdoes (p. 244), 1990.

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

Mary Brave Bird
Generations, Gaps, Canyons

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

Mary Brave Bird
People, Want, Taste
Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

Mary Brave Bird
Meaningful, Justice, Diversity
Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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