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On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing. Joe Lando
Cause Hair First Our Besides Outfit Make Known Make Up Leather Up American Commissioned Artist Native Native American Show Whole Season Thing
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century. Joe Posnanski
Honor Reservation Late Kid Indians Named Cleveland Without Were Ballplayer Up Louis American Native Native American Century Pause Who Wholeheartedly Growing Growing Up Believed Played
The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it. Joel Hodgson
Thought Robot Would Would-Be Crow Inspired Feel Name Sort American Native Native American Cool Things Number
The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks. John Burnside
Son Sunday Walks Other Birds Saw Mining About Trips Beach Knew Town Handful Than Native Decidedly Urban Little Fife
Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession. John Fusco
Research Reservation Horses Had Obsession Come Tracing Became Years Years Ago Pine American Native Native American Certain Twelve Ridge Extinction
I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. John Hanning Speke
Good Evil Slightest Those Civilisation Accurately Impulse Africa Native Where Whether Places Profess European Describe Received
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. John Millington Synge
Death Woman Grief Somewhere Rage Every Complaint Seems Contain Over Island Passionate Years Personal Native Eighty Whole Keen Lurks
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. John Oates
You Soul Sort Irish American Native Moves Native American
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. John Russell
Negative Reservation Name Sort Camp American Native Native Americans Intern Connotation Among
The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity. John Trudell
Art Culture Mimic Other Our Musical Point Remains Take Contemporary Identities Identity Without Mixing Art Form Native Form Creates Using Whole Two Third
I have a real interest in working with younger Native artists. I think it's a very important way for Native people to communicate the realities of our culture and remember our ancestors. John Trudell
Culture People Communicate Remember Important Think Our Way Ancestors Real Very Artists Native Interest Realities Younger Working
When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out. Jon Voight
Spiritual Community Neighborhood Visit Out Seek Spiritual Person Hear Person Native Them Near
I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home. Jonathan Silverman
Time Home Change Seen Believe City Develop Over Like Still Native Place
Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent - perhaps a dozen or more each year. Joseph Bruchac
Time Myself Family Travel Winter Relatives Tribal Year Spring Own Autumn Every Other Summer Visiting Find My Own More Perhaps Most Around Continent Often Native Aside Communities Each Traveling Each Year Dozen Set
At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace. Joseph Bruchac
Time Journey History Peace People Made Long Clark Long History Had Contact Most Native Europeans Violent Lewis Lewis And Clark
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right. Joseph Bruchac
Time Patience Waiting One Of The Things Importance Been American Taught Native Native American Elders Right Things
From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. Joseph Bruchac
Work Words Tribal Other Teenage Teenage Years Books Press Out Indian Small Poetry Involved Also Became Sought Years Review Very American Authors Listened Nations Native Elders Many Publishing Started
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. Juan Goytisolo
Me Values Those Critical Only Physically Became Judgments Closest Native Native Land Land Stranger Lived Away
One's native land! There should one live! There die! Jules Verne
Live Die Native Native Land Land Should
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. Julia Jones
Way Female Been Historically Very American Native Native American Notable Figures Many
I'm a Native American actress. Julia Jones
American Native Native American Actress
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones. Junot Diaz
Food Trust Book People Word Took Extreme Write For The People Readers Up Native Grew Spanish Pains Even
I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. Kara DioGuardi
Tell Kind New Like Yorker Native New Yorker
Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493. Kate Christensen
History People Had Until Although Been South America Native Central Central America Centuries Figure European Among Widely
Being Native American, we were different than everybody else, but I never felt like I was different. Kelvin Sampson
Everybody Everybody Else Else Never Like Felt Were Than American Being Native Different Native American
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized. Ken Salazar
Relationship History First Country Nation Settlers Tribes Recognized Fact Between New American Sovereignty Front Native Where In Fact Native American Turned Interface Page Included
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