The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction. — Russell Means 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
Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our… — Russell Means 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 knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we… — 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
You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
So I'd much rather get across the concept of freedom. It's what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was… — Russell Means 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
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
Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest — Russell Means Copy Share
America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish… — Russell Means Copy Share
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that… — Russell Means Copy Share
When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again! — Russell Means Copy Share
Golden eagles don't mate with bald eagles, deer don't mate with antelope, gray wolves don't mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals,… — Russell Means Copy Share
Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom. — Russell Means Copy Share
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot. — Russell Means Copy Share
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or… — Russell Means Copy Share
Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people… — Russell Means Copy Share
We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones… — Russell Means Copy Share
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American… — Russell Means Copy Share
I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free… — Russell Means Copy Share
Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain… — Russell Means Copy Share
![“[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492… Columbus called the tribal people he met "Indio,"…” quote by Russell Means](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/913/russell-means-12584_beach_the-is-a-mistaken-belief-that-the-word-i_3090485.jpg)
