“You know, Indians don’t attack whites just because they like to or because it’s their nature,” Possuelo said, imparting a quick civics… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that… — Christopher Gist Copy Share Image
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“The Sioux position, conveyed by White Face, is that the land needs to be returned; it needs to become tribal land again.… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“You have heard the good Talks which our Brother (George Morgan) Weepemachukthe [The White Deer] has delivered to us from the Great… — Chief Cornstalk Copy Share Image
“In October 1805, Stoddard’s tour left St. Louis, including forty-five Indians from eleven tribes. They arrived in Washington in January 1806. Jefferson… — Stephen E. Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Since the Indians were better woodsmen than the English and virtually impossible to track down, the method was to feign peaceful intentions,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Until we start attacking the root of the historical problems of discrimination against Indians, and those Indians begin in these stereotypes, that… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
If anyone can say 'go back,' it's Native Americans. My Pueblo ancestors, despite being targeted at every juncture - despite facing famine… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
“Because the Indians are planning to start war now, the common people want all of them destroyed so that they can live… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all… — Chief Joseph 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
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
By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois.… — Ishmael Reed 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
It's never said out aloud, or in so many words, but for many urban, upper caste Indians, 'the backwards' are precisely that… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just… — James Welch Copy Share Image
The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years.… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Being the only Indian in class, I had to be able to stand up and defend myself and debate the others when… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
“Nothing, however, bemused the Indians more than the European habit of blowing their noses into a fine handkerchief, folding it carefully, and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble.… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
According to me, Indian players have a lot of will-power and this ability to learn will definitely put them on the right… — David Trezeguet Copy Share Image
That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their…” quote by Andrew Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e35/andrew-jackson-2317_certain_that-those-tribes-the-sac-and-fox-indian_2249384.png)
![“You have heard the good Talks which our Brother (George Morgan) Weepemachukthe [The White Deer] has delivered to us from the Great Council at Philadelphia representing all our white Brethern who have grown out of this same Ground with ourselves for this Big [Turtle] Island being our common Mother…” quote by Chief Cornstalk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/chief-cornstalk-157249_flesh-and-blood_you-have-heard-the-good-talks-which-our_634149.jpg)
![“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.” quote by Aaron Huey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/aaron-huey-31542_cannons_the-u-s-government-was-tired-of-treaties_879620.jpg)
![“We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.” quote by John McCain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/john-mccain-465_disgrace_we-know-that-this-nation-entered-into-so_2442091.jpg)
