These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new… — Richard Rodriguez 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
“Brother, if you white men murdered the son of the Great Spirit, we Indians had nothing to do with it. It is… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share Image
My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to… — Malachi Throne Copy Share Image
“The Pilgrims’ descendants have proven to be, if nothing else, fruitful. In 2002 it was estimated that there were approximately 35 million… — Nathaniel Philbrick 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
“First, Spaniard exploits Indian, then, when he had children, he exploited the half-breed, then the pure-blooded Mexican Spaniard, the criollo, then the… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social lives of Indians. He… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“On October 1, 1838, the first detachment set out in what was to be known as the Trail of Tears. As they… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage,… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room… — George Crook Copy Share Image
These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“It may have been true that from a strictly legal standpoint there was nothing wrong with how Winslow and the other Plymouth… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians?" I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there.… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented… — John Lawson Copy Share Image
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
“Indians are in denial mode and wake up only when foreigners treasure India. They don’t seem to know the value and,therefore, don’t… — Maria Wirth Copy Share Image
“A great many people in North America believe that Canada and the United States, in a moment of inexplicable generosity, gave treaty… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
“Why is it that fathers so often ensure the outcome they are trying to avoid? Is their need to dominate so much… — Mira Jacob 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
Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a… — Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Indian penology has not advanced beyond the 18th-19th century. We have created prison and death as sui generis institutions. We know only… — Rajeev Dhavan Copy Share Image
“Without Massasoit’s help, the Pilgrims would never have survived the first year, and they remained steadfast supporters of the sachem to the… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Even the most traditional Indians, the ones who'd kept the old ceremonies alive in secret, either had Catholicism beaten into them in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever… — Rose George Copy Share Image
While the Pilgrims landed on 'Plymouth Rock' in 1620, the Spanish had already settled in to the Southwest beginning in the late… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I could think of no better reason to applaud Brazil’s efforts—however flawed, enfeebled, or underfunded—to protect them. As the Possuelo-led sertanistas pointed… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
![“Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A century of learning [from Native Americans] was coming to a close. A century and more of forgetting--of calling history into service to rationalize conquest--was beginning." After 1815…” quote by James W. Loewen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/james-w-loewen-12569_forgetting_another-result-of-the-war-of-1812-was-th_2288641.png)
