Quotes from Navajo Leaders

"Saad Na a taani Bitsa dei"

Quotes from Navajo Leaders

After we get back to our country it will brighten up again and the Navajo will be as happy as the land, black clouds will rise and there will be plenty of rain. Corn will grow in abundance and everything look happy.Barboncito

I hope to God that you will not ask me to go to any other country except my own. It might not turn out to be another Bosque Redondo. They told us this was a good place when we came, but it is not (Acrey 75). Barboncito

I am very pleased with what you have said, and if we go back to our own country, we are willing to abide by whatever orders are issued to us; we do not want to go to the right or left, but straight back to our own country (Acrey 75). Barboncito

When we saw the top of the mountian (Mt. Taylor) from Albuquerque we wondered if it was our mountain and felt like falling to the ground, we loved it so.... (Acrey 77) Manuelito