“White people build a really big fire and stand way back. Indians build a little-bitty fire and get real close.” — Rickey Bray Copy Share Image
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy;… — James Welch Copy Share Image
On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The U.A.E. cannot be considered as any other nation as their rulers have underlined. Indians, especially Keralites, have contributed immensely in their… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
People say they don't want to call a call-centre in India. Why not? They're doing the same job - you just don't… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Half of the 102 people on the Mayflower made it through the first winter, which to me seemed amazing. How did they… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Cutting losses was the watchword, as was throwing responsibility onto the shoulders of Indians. ‘You asked us to quit. We will oblige.… — Rajmohan Gandhi Copy Share Image
“On the summits of these heights I found shells such as are picked up at the seaside. The Indians accounted for their… — Fanny Kelly Copy Share Image
“The whites who administered Native American subjugation claimed to be recruiting the Indians to join them in a truer, more coherent worldview—but… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Indians were made for film. Indians were exotic and erotic. All those feathers, all that face paint, the breast plates, the bone… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“People in the West like to shoot things. When they first got to the West they shot buffalo. Once there were 70… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Ideally, leaders of the Five Tribes would exercise their sovereignty and be the governments that recognize groups that claim to be their… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
“But within four years Jefferson had compelled the Osage to relinquish their territory between the Arkansas River and the Missouri River. The… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Jackson himself described how the treaties were obtained: “. . . we addressed ourselves feelingly to the predominant and governing passion of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The White Man goes into his church and talks about Jesus. The Indian goes into his tipi and talks with Jesus.” — Quanah Parker Copy Share Image
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
We are very happy to have Sachin as the Mumbai Indians Icon. I am sure the youngsters in the team will be… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can. — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
“Without needing told, without Jacob's lead, Akando dropped to his knees and lunged into the throne room of Christ.” — Willowy Whisper Copy Share Image
Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned… — John Gibbon Copy Share Image
As West Indians we have always been disrespected. As soon as we fight back they make it look like we are the… — Chris Gayle Copy Share Image
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is possible that Modi sees his life as evidence that hard physical work can triumph over every disadvantage, but if so,… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Without intact forest, the Indians had nothing. Environmental protection was central to their survival. *” — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed, and I'd like… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“Von Trotha said, “The Wahehe are a tribe of about one quarter of a million people! On the 17th of August 1891,… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
![“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a5/thomas-jefferson-43_accustomed_long-accustomed-to-the-use-of-european-m_1549528.jpg)
