SHOSHONE

When a favor is shown to a white man, he feels it in his head and the tongue speaks out; when a kindness is shown to an Indian, he feels it in his heart and the heart has no tongue.

SUQWAMISH

What is a man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.
- Chief Seattle, Suqwamish and Duwamish

SALISH

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

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