All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land -… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know… — Canasatego Copy Share Image
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the… — William Commanda Copy Share Image
“Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan—the holy air—which renews all by its… — John (Fire) Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“I guess you hate the people most who make justifiable demands. Because they go to the heart of our psyche. We know… — Mary Crow Dog Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We… — Chris Eyre Copy Share Image
“Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old… — Larry P. Aitken Copy Share Image
“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued… — Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman Copy Share Image
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the… — John Neihardt Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“the British government was thinking beyond the immediate war to a future in which a defeated United States could be hemmed in… — Troy Bickham Copy Share Image
American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families… — William Barr Copy Share Image
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I want to make them [American Indians] live forever. It's such a big dream I can't see it all. — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who… — Maria Tallchief Copy Share Image
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name:… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image