Luther Standing Bear
Luther Standing Bear (1868-1939) was a Native American, Sioux writer. He advocated traditional values.Wisdom & Quotes
- If today I had a young mind to direct to start on the journey of life and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the white man's present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!
- White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.
- The American Indian is of the soil, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings.
- Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sages of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.
- The old life was attuned to nature's rhythm - bound in mystical ties to the sun, moon, and stars; to the waving grasses, flowing streams and whispering winds. It is not a question ... of the white man 'bringing the Indian up to his plane of thought and action'. It is rather a case where the white man had better grasp some of the Indian's spiritual strength.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois