The Apaches
For about 300 years, the Apaches were the most formidable warriors of the American Southwest. An Athabascan tribe with strong family ties and deep religious beliefs, the Apaches migrated to the Southwest in the 10th century, and were among the first tribes to fight the invading Europeans. Led by legendary chiefs including Geronimo and Cochise, they defeated numerically and technologically superior forces of Spanish, Mexican, and US troops. US army officers, battle-hardened in the Civil War, found the Apaches the greatest American Indian fighters.
The Apaches were never conquered.
Quotes
* It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache
* When the white man discovered our country, we were running it. There were no guns, no prisons, no banks, no taxes, no debt, no door locks, no pollution; women did all the work, and men hunted, played, and laughed all day. White man thought he could improve on this. White man funny. - Native American saying
* I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows.
- Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota (circa 1831-1890)
* It does not require many words to speak the truth. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce (1840-1904)
* What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - Blackfoot
* When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-Cherokee
* You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. - Navajo
* One finger cannot lift a pebble. - Hopi
* Even a small mouse has anger. - Tribe Unknown
* A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. - Tribe Unknown
* The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. - Sioux
* The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs. - Southwest
* Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Cherokee
* Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. - Tribe Unknown
* The rain falls on the just and the unjust. - Hopi
* After dark all cats are leopards. - Zuni
For about 300 years, the Apaches were the most formidable warriors of the American Southwest. An Athabascan tribe with strong family ties and deep religious beliefs, the Apaches migrated to the Southwest in the 10th century, and were among the first tribes to fight the invading Europeans. Led by legendary chiefs including Geronimo and Cochise, they defeated numerically and technologically superior forces of Spanish, Mexican, and US troops. US army officers, battle-hardened in the Civil War, found the Apaches the greatest American Indian fighters.
The Apaches were never conquered.
Quotes
* It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache
* When the white man discovered our country, we were running it. There were no guns, no prisons, no banks, no taxes, no debt, no door locks, no pollution; women did all the work, and men hunted, played, and laughed all day. White man thought he could improve on this. White man funny. - Native American saying
* I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows.
- Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota (circa 1831-1890)
* It does not require many words to speak the truth. - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce (1840-1904)
* What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - Blackfoot
* When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-Cherokee
* You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. - Navajo
* One finger cannot lift a pebble. - Hopi
* Even a small mouse has anger. - Tribe Unknown
* A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. - Tribe Unknown
* The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. - Sioux
* The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs. - Southwest
* Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Cherokee
* Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. - Tribe Unknown
* The rain falls on the just and the unjust. - Hopi
* After dark all cats are leopards. - Zuni
