Native americans Quotes · Page 2

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima

For far too long, the voices of Native Americans have been woefully underrepresented in Congress.

— Sharice Davids

I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.

— Bob Greene

“The bullets will not go toward you. The prairie is large and the bullets will not go toward you.”

— Yellow Bird

“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”

— Henry Clay

My Indian name was Runs with Scissors, but eventually the tribe elders changed it to Waves at Dogs.

— Rock Cowles

From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

— Steven Knight

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

— John Russell

As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation…

— Jay Leno

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large…

— Paula Gunn Allen

Nothing is quite like the Native American Spirit. It is so freeing and liberating to understand the culture. It is a way…

— Jenna Bognar

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and…

— Eddie Izzard

“The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived…

— Jodi Picoult

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those…

— Qwatsinas

Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for…

— Ritchie Torres

“We understand the forked tongue that our grandfathers talked about. [...] We know all the tricks of the wasicu world. Our young…

— Nick Estes

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken…

— Chaske Spencer

In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery…

— Misty Upham

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

There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native…

— Sherman Alexie

We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history…

— Adam Beach

“We all have come here from somewhere else, and the vast majority of us are only a few generations removed from another…

— Dan Rather

The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from…

— Danny Glover

“I would rather not speak with history but history came to me. It was dark before daybreak when the fire sparked. The…

— Joy Harjo

“He was the youngest and newest member of a four-man team. Hence, low man on the totem pole. Except that calling a…

— Lee Child

“Johnny Cake or hoe cake is baked, and thus more closely resembles cornbread. . . . The name, it has been claimed,…

— Ken Albala

“Thanks to an ingenious constitution, their geographical isolation from potential rivals, and a magnificent endowment of natural resources, the Americans managed to…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“It is not hard to figure out what Native Americans, enslaved Africans, and indentured White servants meant when they demanded liberty in…

— Ibram X. Kendi

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Allah God has come to fight the battle of justice for the Black man and woman of…

— Louis Farrakhan

“Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. Shaped for…

— Charles C. Mann

“When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw…

— William Faulkner

You don't sing with harmony cause you want to hear it, you sing with harmony because you feel it. That's tradition.

— Anonymous

Happy 4th of July to all Americans!!!...Well, except for Native Americans. For them, my deepest condolences.

— Anonymous

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

— Stephen Colbert

Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic must address inequities facing Native Americans.

— Alex Padilla

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

— Dave Attell

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

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.”

— Sherman Alexie