Native America Quotes

“And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are the Gods of other Provinces more sacred than ours?”
― Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

“By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,
From there the wind comes and blows over the world,
By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,
From there the clouds come and rain falls over the world.”
― Jane Bierhorst, In the Trail of the Wind: American Indian Poems and Ritual Orations