I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that… — Christopher Gist Copy Share Image
“Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“Since the Indians were better woodsmen than the English and virtually impossible to track down, the method was to feign peaceful intentions,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Pilgrims’ descendants have proven to be, if nothing else, fruitful. In 2002 it was estimated that there were approximately 35 million… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
“Indians are in denial mode and wake up only when foreigners treasure India. They don’t seem to know the value and,therefore, don’t… — Maria Wirth Copy Share Image
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“First, Spaniard exploits Indian, then, when he had children, he exploited the half-breed, then the pure-blooded Mexican Spaniard, the criollo, then the… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“It may have been true that from a strictly legal standpoint there was nothing wrong with how Winslow and the other Plymouth… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there.… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians?" I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented… — John Lawson Copy Share Image
“Why is it that fathers so often ensure the outcome they are trying to avoid? Is their need to dominate so much… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“A great many people in North America believe that Canada and the United States, in a moment of inexplicable generosity, gave treaty… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
“Even the most traditional Indians, the ones who'd kept the old ceremonies alive in secret, either had Catholicism beaten into them in… — Louise Erdrich 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
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a… — Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“Without Massasoit’s help, the Pilgrims would never have survived the first year, and they remained steadfast supporters of the sachem to the… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Indian penology has not advanced beyond the 18th-19th century. We have created prison and death as sui generis institutions. We know only… — Rajeev Dhavan Copy Share Image
