I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow! — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. — Bobby Jindal 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
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I want to make them [American Indians] live forever. It's such a big dream I can't see it all. — Edward S. Curtis 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red… — Bobby Fischer 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
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
I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about… — Wes Studi 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
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
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
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 told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
“There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come? — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape. — George Washington Copy Share Image
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