Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
“The idea that “all men are created equal” is a gift to the world from the American Indian.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape. — George Washington 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
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves,… — Anonymous 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
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
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
Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have… — Flying Hawk 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
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
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
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
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science,… — Edward Abbey 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 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
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
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
“They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores… — T.J. Stiles Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a… — N. Scott Momaday 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
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
This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation,… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie… — Donald Wildmon 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
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair. — Vivek Murthy 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
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
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