How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“other hand, had been the exact opposite. Six-foot-five, Native American who weighed in at three-hundred pounds and” — Kristie K. Shafer Copy Share Image
Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans. — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Native American people have been all over the world. One example I use is that I met a Blackfeet man in Vienna.… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
“There was nothing physical she could do to stop Mario from carrying out whatever he wished. She shivered at the thought of… — G.G. Collins Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I studied trumpet for almost 15 years and was performing with a professional concert marching band in parades and rodeos. I was… — R. Carlos Nakai Copy Share Image
The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting… — Wooden Leg Copy Share Image
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Treat all men alike… give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“As historian Theda Perdue and anthropologist Jack Campisi have noted separately, the closing of all-Indian schools created a crisis for southeastern Indians.… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
“Just as the Five Tribes and others were formalizing their tribal governments and running their own programs, legal aid groups were helping… — Mark Edwin Miller Copy Share Image
“It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“Implicitly or explicitly, the rhythms of our lives, the movement from season to season, the patterns of the winds, and the pulse… — Ray A. Williamson Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea. — Julia Jones Copy Share Image
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream,… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“Hiking is like life... You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or… — Susannah Scott Copy Share Image
I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ...… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience." ” — John-Paul Cernak Copy Share Image
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the… — Tatanka Copy Share Image
We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
