The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves. — Richard Evans Schultes Copy Share Image
My Indian name was Runs with Scissors, but eventually the tribe elders changed it to Waves at Dogs. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.' — John Bartlett Copy Share Image
Indians are very intelligent - of that, there is no doubt - but we are not necessarily hard working. — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. — John Russell Copy Share Image
“When the Lakota chief Red Cloud finally quit fighting the intruders, he reportedly told a white delegation, "We didn't need all this… — Scott Zesch Copy Share Image
Afghanis love Indians. The hospitality that they extended to us will remain with me for the rest of my life. — Satyadev Kancharana Copy Share Image
“...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
It has been established that most Indians have the same DNA profile irrespective of caste, religion, or region. Yet we find our… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and… — William Odom Copy Share Image
There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc). — Quanah Parker 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
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land.… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
“He might wish the Indians to transcend their narrow tribal interests, to see themselves not just as Matis or Marubo, Kanamari or… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
“The white man hated to hear anything about spirits because spirits were already dead and could not be tortured and butchered or… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“A source of continual embarrassment along the American frontier—from the late 1600s until the end of the Indian Wars, in the 1890s—was… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
“The Sioux position, conveyed by White Face, is that the land needs to be returned; it needs to become tribal land again.… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I hope the conduct of Indians can become an example for the rest of the world to follow. — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
“Of all the things we Indians love doing, getting offended is our favorite.” — Soumeet Lanka Copy Share Image
The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties. — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that… — Thomas King Copy Share Image