Salish & Sauk Wisdom

SALISH Tribal Quotes

Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you have only a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.
– Chief Dan George, Salish

SAUK Tribal Quotes

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
– Black Hawk, Sauk

During the first year a newly married couple discovers whether they can agree with each other and can be happy – if not, they part, and look for other partners. If we were to live together and disagree we should be as foolish as the whites.
– Black Hawk, Sauk

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