American culture Quote by David Treuer

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

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

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come…

— Russell Means

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

— Paula Gunn Allen

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies.…

— Narendra Modi

“They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores reservation life—the…

— T.J. Stiles

“There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and the American Indians never…

— Philip K. Dick

“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows…

— Daniel Hill

“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

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

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and…

— Sherman Alexie