American culture Quote by Buffy Sainte-Marie

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood…

— John F. Kennedy

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a…

— James W. Loewen

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native…

— Sherman Alexie

I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount…

— Michael Dorris

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American…

— Joseph Bruchac

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

— Sherman Alexie

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free…

— Paula Gunn Allen

In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and…

— Deb Haaland

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

— Dennis Banks

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

— Jenna Bognar

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

— Steven Knight