“Like I said, no Indian I’ve ever heard of has ever been or seen an angel.” — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
“BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom. VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?” — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it? — Deacon Jones Copy Share Image
Here's to screwing up America so badly that the Native Americans wouldn't even want it back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“In indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed a time of positive power, rather than evidence of sin and… — Joan Borysenko Copy Share Image
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
“Our land here is the dearest thing on earth to us. Men take up land and get rich on it, and it… — White Thunder Copy Share Image
“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are… — Violetta Botzet Luetgers Copy Share Image
The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Burials in Cahokia could be astonishingly elaborate. In one, a man was buried on a bed of twenty thousand beads of shell.… — Jake Page Copy Share Image
“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, two contemporary theorists of U.S. empire, have also suggested that the root of contemporary U.S. imperial abuses… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
We are invisible to them because we are still the Human Beings, were still the People, but they will never call us… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Lane,” it said curtly. “I was afraid you were still out of the country,” Cecily said with relief. “Are you all right?”… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“In 1803, President Jefferson oversaw the purchase of this land from the French for $15 million. It doesn't sound like much for… — Dave Gorman Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“As of 2015 only a dozen of the then 567 federally recognized tribal nations recognize same-sex marriage...Other tribes, however, have explicitly restricted… — J. Kēhaulani Kauanui Copy Share Image
“We have been south and suffered a great deal down there. Many have died of diseases which we have no name for.… — Little Wolf Copy Share Image
“Only Cassie had remained silent. She was looking dreamily off over the heads of the mall crowd. "You know, back in the… — K. A. Applegate Copy Share Image
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Happy 4th of July to all Americans!!!...Well, except for Native Americans. For them, my deepest condolences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must address inequities facing Native Americans. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans. — Steven Knight 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
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. — John Russell Copy Share Image
You don't sing with harmony cause you want to hear it, you sing with harmony because you feel it. That's tradition. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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