The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer from unacceptable and disproportionately high levels of violence, which can have lasting impacts on families… — William Barr Copy Share Image
“the British government was thinking beyond the immediate war to a future in which a defeated United States could be hemmed in… — Troy Bickham Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know… — Canasatego Copy Share Image
Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land -… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the… — Paula Gunn Allen 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
“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
Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some… — Walter Truett Anderson 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
Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They [American Indians] never did straight-up fights. It wasn't about, you know, getting killed in the line of fire. It was all… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real… — Anna May Wong Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of the vegetables you see in the supermarkets came from the American Indians. They also gave us aspirin and quinine.… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts,… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
It is not possible in this culture today to hold up to public pillory and ridicule any group - whether blacks, American… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image