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To be indigenous is to protect life on earth.

If you ask permission, you have to listen to the answer.

To be heard, you must speak the language of the one you want to listen.

Imagination is one of our most powerful tools. What we imagine, we can become.

Whether we jump or are pushed, or the edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into someplace new and unexpected. Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us.

The sunrise ceremony is our way of sending gratitude into the world, to recognize all that we are given and to offer our choicest thanks in return. Many Native peoples across the world, despite myriad cultural differences, have this in common—we are rooted in cultures of gratitude.

Leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom.

The presence of our reciprocal love is hard to say good-bye to.

To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.

History moves in a circle.

Being a good mother doesn't end with creating a home where just my children can flourish. A good mother grows into a richly eutrophic old woman, knowing that her work doesn't end until she creates a home where all of life's beings can flourish.

The language reminds us, in every sentence, of our kinship with all of the animate world.