American Quote by Deb Haaland

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

— Sherman Alexie

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom…

— Joe Baca

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this…

— Ken Salazar

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were…

— Philipp Meyer

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Native American people have been all over the world. One example I use is that I met a Blackfeet man in Vienna. He was…

— Lily Gladstone

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

Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the English colonists.…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“the European story is one in which the movement of people is inherent. Even though we have national identities, and pride and traditions that…

— Adam Rutherford

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

Native Americans have faced centuries of atrocities to their people, their land, and their culture - all under various presidents who took an oath…

— Markwayne Mullin

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm…

— Sherman Alexie