Remember Native Americans

“Show respect to all people and grovel to none.” -Tecumseh

“Before eating always take the time to thank the food.” -Arapaho

“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.” -Crow

“The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the dust and blood of our ancestors.” - Chief Plenty Coups

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. -Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man, an Indian said simply, “Ours.” -Vine Deloria, Jr., Oglala

I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become one circle again. - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux

Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.”-Tecumseh,Shawnee

Today marks the 100-year celebration of  Womens Equality Day . Although Native Women were highly involved in early suffrage activism, the 19th amendment would not fully apply to them until as late as 1962. Native suffragists still took advantage of these opportunities to speak about pressing issues in their communities — Native voting, land loss, and treaty rights.