Floyd Red Crow Westerman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.
-- Floyd Red Crow Westerman

#Mother #Thinking #Answers
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.
-- Floyd Red Crow Westerman

#Memories #Men #Fire
If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place
-- Floyd Red Crow Westerman

#Culture #Ceremony #Offense
I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.
-- Floyd Red Crow Westerman

#Christian #Land #Titles

I feel betrayed by own mother.
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
Blaire, This was my grandmotherâ€™s. My fatherâ€™s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that sheâ€™d never loved another the way sheâ€™d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush
The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
The simplest answer is to act.
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

Floyd Red Crow Westerman famous quotes

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