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
This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. — Vine Deloria Jr 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
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. — Charles Alexander Eastman 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
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
Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
“I will willingly abandon this miserable body to hunger and suffering, provided that my soul may have its ordinary nourishment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing… — Zitkala-Sa 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
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
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we… — Sitting Bull 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
[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
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 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
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 AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
“Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I am committed to furthering the self-determination of Indian communities but without terminating the special relationship between the Federal Government and the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk 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
“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
Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction. — Russell Means 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
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
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
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