Native Americans Quotes
82 quotes by 69 authors
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When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.
— Dave Attell
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
— Beau Bridges
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
— Nicolas Cage
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America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were…
— Danny Glover
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The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land…
— Mary Brave Bird
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The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?
— Deacon Jones
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The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it…
— Wilford Woodruff
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We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our…
— Barack Obama
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An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida…
— Robert D Bullard
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You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's…
— Russell Means
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I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that…
— Judith Jamison
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I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and…
— John Wayne
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For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ...…
— Tom Feeney
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I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native…
— Hari Kondabolu
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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
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Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later…
— John Trudell
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor…
— Sitting Bull
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