Brits, Indians, Frenchmen and Belgians fought side by side in the trenches of the Somme and on the fields of Ypres. — Ed Davey 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
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The white settlers of St. Louis nicknamed their settlement “Mound City” in recognition of the twenty-six Indian mounds they found there, but… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know, if the American Indians had enforced such a policy none of us pale-faced honkies would be here. But the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“the original Americans were undoubtedly better off before our European forebears arrived at their shores. And if there were still some final… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“the Sac and Fox Indians of Illinois were removed, after the Black Hawk War (in which Abraham Lincoln was an officer, although… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Where's your dad now?" Thomas asked. "He's gone." The word gone echoed all over the reservation. The reservation was gone itself, just… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I recounted my adventures, just as I recount them to you now. I told him about Bombay, which glowed in the night… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mound.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief and noted orator, tried to unite the Indians against the white invasion: The way, and the only way,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Indians seemed to be living in a place and in a way that was of immense importance to me. So I… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
We, as Indian tribes, should be able to prosecute non-Indians on tribal lands. But on Indian land, we have no ability to… — Wes Studi Copy Share Image
We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky… — Amartya Sen 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
“could not understand why, at treaty councils with the whites, when white prisoners were brought in, beaten, scarred, and noses burned off,… — Rosanne Bittner Copy Share Image
The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“In Deloria's opinion, archaeology is mainly about easing white guilt. Determining that Indians superseded other people fits neatly into this plan. "If… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“An Indian lies in the eyes of the beholder…what you choose to see. You can travel the length and breadth of India,… — An Indian Copy Share Image
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“admired, even emulated. “You saw for yourselves, the Indian doesn’t need the white man to live,” he went on. “He knows how… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
There are probably 400 to 500 people, water protectors, north of the 1889 boundary, that was the result of an illegal annexation… — Chase Iron Eyes Copy Share Image
If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I am honoured to be invited by our respected Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi to join the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.' I dedicate… — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then,… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
