Certain Quote by Andrew Jackson

“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

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process.…

— Michael Crichton

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will…

— Andrew Jackson

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

— Angela Rayner

“There is no substitute to living in one's native land, struggling and winning with one's own people.”

— Mario I. Miclat

“In existing writings about federally recognized tribes and their engagement with tribal acknowledgment politics, a palpable theme is clear: presently recognized nations are not…

— Mark Edwin Miller

“the Sac and Fox Indians of Illinois were removed, after the Black Hawk War (in which Abraham Lincoln was an officer, although he was…

— Howard Zinn

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white…

— Nelson A. Miles

“In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be just and…

— William F. Cody

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they…

— George Crook

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog