When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Mumbai Indians will strive to build on our proud legacy of giving youngsters a platform to showcase their talent and realise their… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
India belongs to Indians of all kinds. Efforts to undermine this fact will only take our country backwards and destroy our hard-fought… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous communities and nations, comprising nearly three million people in the United States. These… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
“…but the image of a “fatal” disappearance of the “vanishing American” allows Indian ancestry - as opposed to African American “blood” -… — Alessandro Portelli Copy Share Image
In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can be said, certainly, with equal… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief and noted orator, tried to unite the Indians against the white invasion: The way, and the only way,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mound.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You go to towns in Massachusetts, Greenfield, first settled in 1686. Wouldn’t it be cool if it said, “Greenfield. First settled c.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“I recounted my adventures, just as I recount them to you now. I told him about Bombay, which glowed in the night… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“It was not long until it became manifest that I would have to either give up the Indians or lose my standing… — Daniel Webster Jones Copy Share Image
The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Each day, each hour, each minute and each second makes me proud to be a part of a country called India and… — AB Copy Share Image
If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America. — George Catlin Copy Share Image
“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and… — Landon Y. Jones Copy Share Image
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture,… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“What treaties that the whites have kept, that the red man broken? Not one. What treaties that the white man gave to… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and… — John F. Kennedy 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
Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
![“The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America… The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.” quote by D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/d-h-lawrence-426_america_the-spirit-of-place-does-not-exert-its-f_3007923.jpg)
