You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if… — Standing Bear Copy Share Image
This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was… — Marc Forgione Copy Share Image
“Sarah (Winnemucca) is best known for her 1883 autobiography, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Theirs Claims, the first memoir writen… — Linda Rodríguez McRobbie 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
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the… — Thomas Banyacya Copy Share Image
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women. — Lee Maracle Copy Share Image
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“People acquire a right to property by giving it value - which Locke makes very clear means exchange value. This had vast… — Ellen Meiksins Wood 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
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 the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well… — Cristian Machado 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
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
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
“No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts When you hear me singing I… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball… — Wanda Sykes 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