I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.
So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight...
