Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time… — Wovoka 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
“He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginations of love were essential to… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They say that perhaps it is not by love, but by blood, that land is bought. They say that perhaps my people… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were… — Bobby Bridger Copy Share Image
With empathy you know in your heart that it's not a sign of weakness to attempt to understand that the people we… — Wayne Dyer 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 want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an… — Victorio Copy Share Image
I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro… — Zora Neale Hurston 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
“The wolf turned to Rachel. She was afraid to run, afraid fleeing would make it chase her. Somewhere in the stored files… — G.G. Collins Copy Share Image
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
Being Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony with all things and all beings. It… — Brooke Medicine Eagle Copy Share Image
It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
For Native Americans, the most shameful and powerful corrective gesture is to literally and physically turn one's back upon a person who… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father… — Spotted Tail Copy Share Image
I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
“The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people,… — Leonard Peltier 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
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
I'm sure you're gonna be taught, if you haven't already, that the people that were here, the Native Americans were beautiful, they… — Rush Limbaugh 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
You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
![“A lot of things occurred to me with shamans in Peru.There were a number of different kinds of experiences that you learn from doing ritual and taking ayahuasca [a common tropical forest hallucinogen] is the key to understanding the native consciousness and perception of the world with the Peruvian…” quote by Fred Alan Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/511/fred-alan-wolf-12886_american-tradition_a-lot-of-things-occurred-to-me-with-sham_2382959.jpg)
![“Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were shelved in the back of the stores alongside books about natural history, dinosaurs, plants, birds, and animals rather than being placed…” quote by Bobby Bridger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb5/bobby-bridger-153131_books_josephy-visited-several-leading-manhatta_1664837.jpg)
![“It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.” quote by Nate Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f68/nate-parker-10210_america_it-s-therapy-people-say-true-healing-req_2292739.jpg)
![“The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion was cherished as a sacrosanct American right -- everywhere, that is, but on the archipelago of Indian life.” quote by Timothy Egan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a7/timothy-egan-30685_civil-rights_the-apache-tribe-was-under-siege-by-gove_257474.jpg)
![“No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.” quote by John Shelton Reed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d7/john-shelton-reed-21912_african-american_no-one-would-stand-for-it-being-the-fool_2283816.jpg)
![“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/img-quotes/e35/andrew-jackson-2317_certain_that-those-tribes-the-sac-and-fox-indian_2249384.jpg)
