Cheyenne Quotes

“Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.”
― April Henry, Girl, Stolen

“For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking.”
― Jim Fergus

“you're just pissed you liked it”
― Nyrae Dawn, Charade

“Colorado was swept clean of Indians. Cheyenne and Arapaho, Kiowa and Comanche, Jicarilla and Ute - they had all known its mountains and plains, but now no trace of them remained but their names on the white man's land.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“You’re late, asshole!” he said cheerfully. He tried to snatch the six-pack out of Cheyenne’s hands but, being shorter by at least half a foot, ended up jumping in the air, his limbs flailing in an exaggerated manner.”
― Melissa Noël, Jezebel Loves Candy

“A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground . Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons . -Cheyenne proverb”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“It is really true, the old Cheyenne saying: "A nation is not dead until the hearts of its women are on the ground." Well, the hearts of our old full-blood women were not on the ground. They were way up high and they could still encourage us with their trilling, spine-tingling brave-heart cry which always made the hairs on my back stand up and my flesh break out in goose pimples whenever I heard it, no matter how often.”
― Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman

“As a Cheyene proverb puts it: “As long as the hearts of our women are high, the nation will live. But should the hearts of our women be on the ground, then all is lost.” Centuries ago, Iroquois women had become sick and tired of the eternal warfare between the tribes and went on strike, refusing to sleep with the men, or bear children, until peace was made. And they won.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman

“We wanted no war with the whites. All we wanted was to be left alone. But they forced us to defend our land, and Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and our Cheyenne allies fought the army along the Bozeman Trail.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman

“Bear Butte, sacred to the Cheyennes and Lakotas, now has a parking area and a paved road leading to the top from where gawking tourists with binoculars can watch one of our holy men undergo his vision quest. But the land is still there, beautiful, waiting to be redeemed, and so long as there is still a shred of life left in us we will keep on fighting for it. HECHEL LENA OYATE KIN NIPI KTE, so that my people may live.”
― Mary Brave Bird, Ohitika Woman