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
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
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
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
“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
With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We didn't have last names before they came. When they decided they needed to keep track of us, last names were given… — Tommy Orange Copy Share Image
“They say that perhaps it is not by love, but by blood, that land is bought. They say that perhaps my people… — Kent Nerburn 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 have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian… — Duncan Campbell Scott 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
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
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
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
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
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
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more…My friends, if… — Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are… — Donte Stallworth Copy Share Image
“I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddamn medicine man.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“.. but I know somebody must be thinking about us because if they weren't we'd just disappear just like those Indians who… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace…Treat all men alike. Give them… — Chief Joseph 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
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