#cherokee

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#inspirational #life #strength #inspirational

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#cherokee #felt #i #i think #indians

The Puritans feared the pathless woods and imputed much evil into wild nature's instructive tendency to balk human progress. The Cherokee derived a religion from that fact. ↗

— Christopher Comuto

#nature #religion #nature

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#affords #cherokee #entire #homes #indians

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#adversity #cherokee #collectively #continue #down

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#cherokee #chief #election #grow #grow up

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#crow #i #latest #life #my life