“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.” — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
“The bullets will not go toward you. The prairie is large and the bullets will not go toward you.” — Yellow Bird Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For far too long, the voices of Native Americans have been woefully underrepresented in Congress. — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
“BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom. VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?” — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a… — Chiksika Copy Share Image
I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Native American isn't blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who… — Anonymous 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
“In indigenous cultures including those of Native Americans, menstruation is viewed a time of positive power, rather than evidence of sin and… — Joan Borysenko Copy Share Image
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
“Our land here is the dearest thing on earth to us. Men take up land and get rich on it, and it… — White Thunder Copy Share Image
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
“Once I heard Dantly tell Welton that the Native Americans used to call that particular part of the morning “between the wolf… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“He remembered learning in one of his social studies classes that in the Old West, when Native Americans were thrown into jail,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went individualist? The United States is the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The 1860s ushered in a number of changes that profoundly transformed the nation. While the emancipation of enslaved people and the increased… — Jim Downs Copy Share Image
“I can't pretend it isn't about my life, she said to me once, it is m life. It's a difficult thing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In 1803, President Jefferson oversaw the purchase of this land from the French for $15 million. It doesn't sound like much for… — Dave Gorman Copy Share Image
“"Such questions [about illegal immigration as 'a major threat to the state'], like the topics of slavery and Native Americans, are often… — Anouar Majid Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad...To produce this horrible confection at… — Sam Harris 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
During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Happy 4th of July to all Americans!!!...Well, except for Native Americans. For them, my deepest condolences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must address inequities facing Native Americans. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. — John Russell Copy Share Image