We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area,… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian… — Nelson A. Miles 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
“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
“I guess you hate the people most who make justifiable demands. Because they go to the heart of our psyche. We know… — Mary Crow Dog Copy Share Image
“Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan—the holy air—which renews all by its… — John (Fire) Lame Deer Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We… — Chris Eyre Copy Share Image
Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the… — William Commanda Copy Share Image
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.… — Sitting Bull 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American… — Marlon Brando 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
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
