“The color of the skin makes no difference. What is good and just for one is good and just for the other, and the Great Spirit made all men brothers.
I have a red skin, but my grandfather was white man. What does it matter? It is not the color of the skin that makes me good or bad.”
Arikara Chief
Excerpted from: Nerburn, Kent and Louise Mengelkoch, eds. Native American Wisdom. San Rafael, CA: Classic Wisdom Collection, 1991.
