Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire.… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power… — Ann Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I'm sure you're gonna be taught, if you haven't already, that the people that were here, the Native Americans were beautiful, they… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people,… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I know he’s had his problems in the past… “He can’t keep his hands off a liquor bottle at the best of… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... believed that nature was filled with spirits.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
“A host of scholars who have studied surviving southeastern Indian groups conclude that few if any of these peoples possess cultures that… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
“In existing writings about federally recognized tribes and their engagement with tribal acknowledgment politics, a palpable theme is clear: presently recognized nations… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Being Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony with all things and all beings. It… — Brooke Medicine Eagle Copy Share Image
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
“The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
For Native Americans, the most shameful and powerful corrective gesture is to literally and physically turn one's back upon a person who… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father… — Spotted Tail Copy Share Image
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an… — Victorio Copy Share Image
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
“The wolf turned to Rachel. She was afraid to run, afraid fleeing would make it chase her. Somewhere in the stored files… — G.G. Collins Copy Share Image
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding… — Deb Haaland 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
![“That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their…” quote by Andrew Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e35/andrew-jackson-2317_certain_that-those-tribes-the-sac-and-fox-indian_2249384.png)
![“No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.” quote by John Shelton Reed](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d7/john-shelton-reed-21912_african-american_no-one-would-stand-for-it-being-the-fool_2283816.jpg)
![“The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion was cherished as a sacrosanct American right -- everywhere, that is, but on the archipelago of Indian life.” quote by Timothy Egan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4a7/timothy-egan-30685_civil-rights_the-apache-tribe-was-under-siege-by-gove_257474.jpg)
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