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
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
In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today,… — Leonard Peltier 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
What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our… — Robert A. Williams, Jr 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
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me… — Karla Souza 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
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
I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I would like to say, for the record, that I am in favor of using more American Indians and other minorities in… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell… — Kenneth C. Davis Copy Share Image
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many… — Charles Slagle Copy Share Image
Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire.… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Before you judge a person you have to walk in their moccasins and live in their lodge for a month.” — Buddy Hannah Copy Share Image
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf… — Richard Widmark Copy Share Image
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
