American history Quote by Chaske Spencer

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

— Joel Kotkin

I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and "wisdom" and simply personal family and local…

— Gary Gygax

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

There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've…

— Barack Obama

Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered…

— Carlos Mencia

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

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have…

— Studs Terkel

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a…

— Sherman Alexie

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima

I have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and out of…

— Timothy B. Schmit