For thousands of years Native American cultures maintained an ecological and social balance.  Their philosophies and common sense beliefs are featured here through the quotes of various tribesmen.


HURON Tribal Quotes

Let your nature be known and proclaimed.

KIOWA Tribal Quotes

I love the land and the buffalo and will not part with it... I want the children raised as I was... I don't want to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.
- Satanta, Kiowa chief

This building houses for us is all nonsense.  You tell the Great Father that there is plenty of buffalo yet, and when the buffalo are all gone I will tell him.  -- - Satanta, Kiowa chief