Tribes don't need Congressmembers' sympathy. What tribes…

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

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the…

— George Catlin

“A host of scholars – many of whom, like Deloria, have aided petitioning tribes – support the ‘small pie’ theory. They believe that government…

— Mark Edwin Miller

More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god…

— Stephen Kinzer

Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes…

— William J. Clinton

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about…

— Jack Abramoff

During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the…

— Leonard Peltier

“As of 2015 only a dozen of the then 567 federally recognized tribal nations recognize same-sex marriage...Other tribes, however, have explicitly restricted same-sex marriage…

— J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be…

— Paul Rudnick

If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic…

— Leonard Peltier

I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the Indian people.…

— Gerald R. Ford

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They…

— Anonymous

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this…

— Ken Salazar

“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

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

— Edward Hoagland