“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
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
“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 Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“We were born naked and have been taught to hunt and live on the game. You tell us that we must learn… — Gall Copy Share Image
As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“The speech lacked soaring cadences or memorable lines, yet it touched on two explosive issues at the finale. He advised Native Americans… — Ron Chernow 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
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
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble.… — Chief Joseph 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
“In the American colonies, the first laborers were European indentured servants. When African laborers were forcibly brought to Virginia beginning in 1619,… — Alan H. Goodman Copy Share Image
“Johnny Cake or hoe cake is baked, and thus more closely resembles cornbread. . . . The name, it has been claimed,… — Ken Albala Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I would rather not speak with history but history came to me. It was dark before daybreak when the fire sparked. The… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“In 1924, Native Americans were granted U.S. citizenship, and the federal government considered it a national duty to “civilize” them,13 including Alaska… — Christine Shearer Copy Share Image
“Gaia giveth even as she taketh away. The warming of the global climate over the past century had melted permafrost and glaciers,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Multiculturalism--the claim that minority cultures and ways of life should be protected through group rights and privilege--amounts to the Balkanization of this… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“Nazi persecution didn’t limit itself to race. Religion, national origin, alternative lifestyles, persons with disabilities—all were targets. How would you characterize the… — Ronald H. Balson 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
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
Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
The one thing about Lumbee people is that there's so many stereotypes about Native Americans, especially reservation Native Americans, and we all… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
“Paganism has no fixed creeds or dogmas, no self-proclaimed gurus or prophets, no holy books or saviours. Earth Herself is our teacher.… — Monica Sjoo Copy Share Image
“Native Americans sold all of the land within the present boundaries of Pennsylvania-45,045 square miles, or a little less than 29 million… — Francis Fox Copy Share Image
“What happens to the other people who don't share this faith? Are they not in heaven, either? I thought (and still think)… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“And afterward, I stopped at Red Cloud's grave to pay my respects to the old chief. Some Oglalas had left him tobacco… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name.… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“If the Texans had kept out of my country, there might have been peace. But that which you now say we must… — Ten Bears Comanche Nation Copy Share Image
“For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“We all have come here from somewhere else, and the vast majority of us are only a few generations removed from another… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken… — Chaske Spencer Copy Share Image
“We understand the forked tongue that our grandfathers talked about. [...] We know all the tricks of the wasicu world. Our young… — Nick Estes Copy Share Image
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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