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
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
“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
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
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
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 to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power,… — Dee Brown 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 regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddamn medicine man.… — Sherman Alexie 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
“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
I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“George Arthur, a tribal council delegate, spoke on behalf of the tribe. Arthur was a chairman, too, of the Navajo legislature's resources… — Judy Pasternak 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
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
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
“There’s a native American legend. It says that one day a white buffalo will be born during a summer storm. The crows… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell,… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois.… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“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
We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
“I have often thought that given an extreme situation, I'd have it in me to kill, if that was the only way.… — Mary Crow Dog Copy Share Image
“They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians (and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people) are carrying… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“The Irish-Indians, who were of dark complexion, would many times claim to be Black Dutch or Black Irish and deny their rightful… — Rickey Butch Walker Copy Share Image
The western has always been, for me, the bread and butter. It's the easiest place for an identifiable Native American to be… — Wes Studi Copy Share Image
People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter… — Jennifer Frick-Ruppert Copy Share Image
The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop… — Chief Blackfish Copy Share Image
[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
![“The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it has done the Jews, though the Jews have not been darkened in their skin as have the Lamanites.” quote by Wilford Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d7/wilford-woodruff-13197_curse_the-lamanites-native-americans-now-a-dow_2952145.png)
![“[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492… Columbus called the tribal people he met "Indio,"…” quote by Russell Means](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/russell-means-12584_beach_the-is-a-mistaken-belief-that-the-word-i_3090485.jpg)
