According to Dakota tribal wisdom,
when astride a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount.
-Native American Proverb

Always assume your guest is
tired, cold, and hungry,
and act accordingly.
-Native American Proverb

Every time you wake up ask yourself
What good things am I going to do today?
Remember that when the sun goes down at
sunset it will take a part of your life with it.
-Native American Proverb

Give me knowledge,
so I may have kindness for all.
-Native American Proverb

I seek strength, not to be greater
than my brother, but to fight
my greatest enemy..........myself.
-Native American Proverb

Tell me, and I'll forget.
Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I'll understand.
-Native American Proverb

Walk tall as the trees,
live strong as the mountains,
be gentle as the spring winds,
keep the warmth of the summer sun
in your heart, and the great spirit
will always be with you.
-Native American Proverb

It is less of a problem
to be poor than to be dishonest.
-Anishinabe Proverb

What the people believe is true.
- Anishinabe Proverb

Even your silence holds a sort of prayer.
-Apache Proverb

The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.
-Apache Proverb

Before eating, always take
a little time to thank the food.
-Arapaho Proverb

When we show our respect
for other living things,
they respond with respect for us.
-Arapaho Proverb

If we wonder often,
the gift of knowledge will come.
-Arapaho Proverb

Every bird loves to hear himself sing.
-Arapaho Proverb

Take only what you need
and leave the land as you found it.
-Arapaho Proverb

Life is not separate from death.
It only looks that way.
-Blackfoot Proverb

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-Cherokee Proverb

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 Proverb

Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
-Cheyenne Proverb

Do not judge your neighbor
until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
-Cheyenne Proverb

Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
-Cheyenne Proverb

If a man is as wise as a serpent,
he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
-Cheyenne Proverb

It is good to tell one's heart.
-Chippewa Proverb

All who have died are equal.
-Comanche Proverb

Treachery darkens the chain of friendship,
but truth makes it brighter than ever.
-Conestoga Proverb

Never sit while your seniors stand.
-Cree Proverb

Knowledge that is not used is abused.
-Cree Proverb

Man's law changes
with his understanding of man.
Only the laws of the spirit
remain always the same.
-Crow Proverb

The only things that need the
protection of men are the things of men,
not the things of the spirit.
-Crow Proverb

You already possess everything
necessary to become great.
-Crow Proverb

We will be known forever
by the tracks we leave.
-Dakota Proverb

The supreme law of the land
is the Great Spirit's law, not man's law.
-Hopi Proverb

Truth does not happen, it just is.
-Hopi Proverb

The rain falls upon the just and the unjust.
-Hopi Proverb

No answer is also an answer.
-Hopi Proverb

Never be afraid to cry.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
-Hopi Proverb

Wisdom comes only
when you stop looking for it
and start living the life
the Creator intended for you.
-Hopi Proverb

A people without faith
in themselves cannot survive.
-Hopi Proverb

Work hard, keep the ceremonies,
live peaceably, and unite your hearts.
-Hopi Proverb

A brave man dies once . . a coward many times.
-Iowa Proverb

The greatest strength is gentleness.
-Iroquois Proverb

Walk lightly in the spring;
Mother Earth is pregnant.
-Kiowa Proverb

Do not speak of evil
for it creates curiosity
in the hearts of the young.
-Lakota Proverb

When a man moves away from nature
his heart becomes hard.
-Lakota Proverb

Pray to understand what man has forgotten.
-Lumbee Proverb

Seek wisdom, not knowledge.
Knowledge is of the past,
wisdom is of the future.
-Lumbee Proverb

The soul would have no rainbow
if the eyes had no tears.
-Minquass Proverb

If you see no reason for giving thanks,
the fault lies in yourself.
-Minquass Proverb

A good chief gives, he does not take.
-Mohawk Proverb

I have been to the end of the earth,
I have been to the end of the waters,
I have been to the end of the sky,
I have been to the end of the mountains,
I have found none that are not my friends.
-Navajo Proverb

Thoughts are like arrows:
once released, they strike their mark.
Guard them well or one day
you may be your own victim.
-Navajo Proverb

Talk to your children while they are eating;
what you say will stay even after you are gone.
-Nez Perce Proverb

He who is present at a wrongdoing and
does not lift a hand to prevent it,
is as guilty as the wrongdoers.
-Omaha Proverb

Respect the gift and the giver.
-Omaha Proverb

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
-Omaha Proverb

What is past and cannot be prevented
should not be grieved for.
-Pawnee Proverb

Misfortunes do not flourish on one path,
they grow everywhere.
-Pawnee Proverb

Trouble no man about his religion..
respect him in his views and
demand that he respect yours.
-Pawnee Proverb

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor,
for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
-Pima Proverb

Show respect for all men, but grovel to none.
-Shawnee Proverb

It is no longer good enough to cry peace,
we must act peace, live peace.. and live in peace.
-Shenandoah Proverb

When a favor is shown to a white man,
he feels it in his head
and the tongue speaks out;
when a kindness is shown to an Indian,
he feels it in his heart
and the heart has no tongue.
-Shoshone Proverb

With all things and in all things,
we are relatives.
-Sioux Proverb

The frog does not drink up the pond
in which he lives.
-Sioux Proverb

Man has responsibility, not power.
-Tuscarora Proverb

They are not dead who live
in the hearts they leave behind.
-Tuscarora Proverb

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Walk beside me; that we may be as one.
-Ute Proverb

Silence has so much meaning.
-Yurok Proverb