Crutch Quote by Dipti Dhakul

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed…

— Sherman Alexie

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

— Buffalo Bill

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely…

— Richard Rodriguez

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the…

— Nelson A. Miles

There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing…

— Louise Erdrich

Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.'

— John Bartlett

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law…

— Rick Renzi

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw…

— Winona LaDuke

There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American Indian in our society.…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white…

— Nelson A. Miles

Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be…

— Paul Rudnick

“It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians, which are…

— Dee Brown