Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is read more

Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.

You are the land. The land is you.

You are the land. The land is you.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; read more

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Lanscape shapes culture.

Lanscape shapes culture.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The read more

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the read more

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.