Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow! — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“Before you judge a person you have to walk in their moccasins and live in their lodge for a month.” — Buddy Hannah Copy Share Image
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing… — Zitkala-Sa Copy Share Image
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real… — Anna May Wong Copy Share Image
They [American Indians] never did straight-up fights. It wasn't about, you know, getting killed in the line of fire. It was all… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
“They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores… — T.J. Stiles Copy Share Image
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie… — Donald Wildmon Copy Share Image
This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation,… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
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