Standing Bear

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.