It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to… — Carlos Montezuma Copy Share Image
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace…Treat all men alike. Give them… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts,… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of the vegetables you see in the supermarkets came from the American Indians. They also gave us aspirin and quinine.… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today,… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
![“[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.” quote by Black Hawk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9c1/black-hawk-36816_american-indian_black-hawk-has-fought-for-his-countrymen_2431586.jpg)
