All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage. — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to… — Carlos Montezuma Copy Share Image
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the… — John Neihardt Copy Share Image
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued… — Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman Copy Share Image
“Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old… — Larry P. Aitken Copy Share Image
“Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan—the holy air—which renews all by its… — John (Fire) Lame Deer Copy Share Image
Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the… — William Commanda Copy Share Image
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who… — Maria Tallchief Copy Share Image
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name:… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
![“[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.” quote by Black Hawk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c1/black-hawk-36816_american-indian_black-hawk-has-fought-for-his-countrymen_2431586.jpg)
![“I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of humility and respect. If it were not for the ethnographic material that had been collected by missionaries and anthropologists and so forth, much of past Native…” quote by Michael Dorris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f26/michael-dorris-29681_american-indian_i-certainly-don-t-object-to-writers-tryi_1784016.jpg)
