America Quote by Eduardo Galeano

Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films,…

— Wilma Mankiller

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

— Miles Davis

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that…

— Jon Stewart

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

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

— Ivan van Sertima

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why…

— Dee Brown

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

— Louise Erdrich

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores…

— Henry David Thoreau

[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the…

— Russell Means