American Quote by Amitava Kumar

I have had a lot of your countrymen as co-stars, that's true. I quite like them both. It depends on the person. I don't…

— Julia Roberts

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there…

— Anonymous

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

— Paul Theroux

“Just as the Five Tribes and others were formalizing their tribal governments and running their own programs, legal aid groups were helping nonrecognized tribes…

— Mark Edwin Miller

Where did all these damn Indians come from?

— George Armstrong Custer

The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

— Cree Summer

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters…

— Thomas King

“Because the Indians are planning to start war now, the common people want all of them destroyed so that they can live in peace;…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“Wherever the white man goes he attempts to impose the bases of his ordered civilization. He puts down tribal war, he wages truceless combat…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Should Indian adults attempt to use the California courts to bring such killers to justice, they invariably were frustrated because the law of the…

— David E. Stannard

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before…

— Tecumseh