“The forces that we deal with have two sides: one is good and helpful and the other is dark and dangerous. Part… — Gala.J Copy Share Image
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon,… — Ronnie Dunn 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
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
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
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
“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
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
I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are… — Donte Stallworth 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
“We didn't have last names before they came. When they decided they needed to keep track of us, last names were given… — Tommy Orange 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
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what… — Suzan Shown Harjo 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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts,… — Massasoit Copy Share Image
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with… — Winona LaDuke 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
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
“When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit… — Veronica Randolph Batterson Copy Share Image
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long… — Black Hawk 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
“The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a… — Frazier Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
For me space rock is something that takes you out of yourself and out of your normal realm. And if space happens… — David W. Marsden 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/img-quotes/e35/andrew-jackson-2317_certain_that-those-tribes-the-sac-and-fox-indian_2249384.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)
![“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)
![“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)
