Indigenous Peoples Day

“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” —Tecumseh

 “It does not require many words to speak the truth.” – Chief Joseph

“A good chief gives, he does not take.” – Mohawk Tribe

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

“I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” – Geronimo

“Go forward with courage. When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage."

- Chief White Eagle, Ponca Chief

“I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.”

― Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota Sioux

“When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose, it is called a massacre.”

– Chiksika, Shawnee

“The love of possessions is a disease with them. They take tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own and fence the neighbors away.

If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough.”

― Sitting Bull

“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.”

― Cree Prophecy

“Badlands: Monuments”

Oil on Canvas

42” X 33”

Kathy Hodge