Celebrate Native American Month with Favorite Quotations and Movies

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First Nations Development Institute

Nov 01, 2014, 07:00 ET

LONGMONT, Colo., Nov. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- November is Native American Heritage Month. In recognition, First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) has created a list of favorite Native quotations and films.

"Many of us are prolific readers and movie-goers, especially for Native authors and filmmakers or about Native history and experiences," noted First Nations President Michael E. Roberts.  "We often bookmark quotes that speak to us, both from historical figures or contemporary authors, or we recommend films we think are worthy. This month is a great time to share these with both the Native and non-Native worlds."

First Nations is a 34-year-old, Native-created and led organization that works to build stronger Native American economies and communities.  It is based in Longmont, Colorado, but serves American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities across the U.S.

Favorite Movies:

  • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
  • Chiefs (documentary on Wind River basketball team)
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska 
  • Frozen River
  • Geronimo: An American Legend
  • Lakota Woman
  • Naturally Native
  • Powwow Highway
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence
  • Reel Injun  
  • Skins
  • Smoke Signals
  • The Shirt
  • Thunderheart
  • Whale Rider

Favorite Quotations:
(We have included only a brief sampling of quotes here.  For our full list, please visit www.firstnations.org/HeritageMonth. )

  • "Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense." – Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • "Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children" – Sitting Bull
  • "What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history." ― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
  • "Grown men can learn from very little children, for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show them many things which older people miss."— Black Elk
  • "The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies" -- Mary Brave Bird
  • "We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to."  ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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SOURCE First Nations Development Institute

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