Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,…

— Thomas Jefferson

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came…

— Chief Joseph

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before…

— Tecumseh

“Should Indian adults attempt to use the California courts to bring such killers to justice, they invariably were frustrated because the law of the…

— David E. Stannard

“Wherever the white man goes he attempts to impose the bases of his ordered civilization. He puts down tribal war, he wages truceless combat…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Because the Indians are planning to start war now, the common people want all of them destroyed so that they can live in peace;…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters…

— Thomas King

The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

— Cree Summer

Where did all these damn Indians come from?

— George Armstrong Custer

“Just as the Five Tribes and others were formalizing their tribal governments and running their own programs, legal aid groups were helping nonrecognized tribes…

— Mark Edwin Miller

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

— Paul Theroux

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there…

— Anonymous

This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity…

— Rigoberta Menchu