Standing Bear Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Standing Bear:
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
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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.
~Standing Bear
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And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.
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Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.
~Standing Bear
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God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.
~Standing Bear
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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.
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There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.
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