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Chief Dan George
6 quotes
“Can we talk of integration until there is social integration? Unless there is integration in hearts and minds, you only have a physical presence and the walls are as high as the mountain tops.”
Chief Dan George (1899–1981) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chief Dan George Speaks on Native American Culture and America, Mother Earth News, (July/August 1971)
“We paid, we paid, and we paid until we became a beaten race, poverty stricken and conquered. But you have been kind to listen to me, and I know that in your hearts you wish you could help. I wonder if there is much you can do, and yet there is a lot you can do. When you meet my children in your classrooms, respect each one for what he is: a child of our Father in heaven and your brother.”
Chief Dan George (1899–1981) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chief Dan George Speaks on Native American Culture and America, Mother Earth News, (July/August 1971)
“And today, when you celebrate your hundred years, oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land. For I have known you when your forests were mine; when they gave me my meat and my clothing. But in the long hundred years since the white man came, I have seen my freedom disappear like the salmon going mysteriously out to sea. The white man's strange customs, which I could not understand, pressed down upon me until I could no longer breathe.”
Chief Dan George (1899–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Janet Rogers in Has anything changed? Revisiting Chief Dan George's iconic 'Lament for Confederation', CBC, (5 May 2017)
“When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage. When I neither understood nor welcomed his way of life, I was called lazy. When I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority... Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success — his education, his skills — and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society.”
Chief Dan George (1899–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Janet Rogers in Has anything changed? Revisiting Chief Dan George's iconic 'Lament for Confederation', CBC, (5 May 2017)
“I knew my people when they lived the old way. I knew them when there was still a dignity in our lives, and a feeling of worth in our outlook. I knew them when there was unspoken confidence in the home, a certain knowledge of the path we walked upon. But we were living on the dying energy of a dying culture—a culture which was slowly losing its forward thrust. I think it was the suddenness of it all that hurt us so. We did not have time to adjust to the startling upheaval around us. We seemed to have lost what we had without a replacement of it. We did not have time to take this 20th-century progress and eat it little by little and digest it. It was forced feeding from the start, and our stomach turned sick.”
Chief Dan George (1899–1981) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chief Dan George Speaks on Native American Culture and America, Mother Earth News, (July/August 1971)
“My nation was ignored in your history textbooks – they were little more important in the history of Canada than the buffalo that ranged the plains. I was ridiculed in your plays and motion pictures, and when I drank your fire-water, I got drunk – very, very drunk. And I forgot...Oh Canada, how can I celebrate with you this centenary, this hundred years? Shall I thank you for the reserves that are left to me of my beautiful forests? For the canned fish of my rivers? For the loss of my pride and authority, even among my own people? For the lack of my will to fight back? No! I must forget what’s past and gone... Oh God in heaven! Give me back the courage of the olden chiefs. Let me wrestle with my surroundings. Let me again, as in the days of old, dominate my environment. Let me humbly accept this new culture and through it rise up and go on... I shall see our young braves and our chiefs sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and being ruled by the knowledge and freedoms of our great land. So shall we shatter the barriers of our isolation. So shall the next hundred years be the greatest in the proud history of our tribes and nations.”
Chief Dan George (1899–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Chief Dan George’s powerful Indigenous rights speech, 50 years later, APTN National News (28 Jun 2017)