Native americans Quote by Francis Fox

“(By contrast, 15 percent of Pennsylvania is publicly owned lands, as is 44 percent of California, 68 percent of Idaho, and more than 90 percent of Alaska.) In”

— Edward Humes

“The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“In 1803, President Jefferson oversaw the purchase of this land from the French for $15 million. It doesn't sound like much for an area…

— Dave Gorman

African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.”

— Jeannette Walls

Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize…

— W. Kamau Bell

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to…

— James Monroe

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to…

— Neil Abercrombie

“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the…

— William Hogeland

“From the legal point of view it was early established that the Indians were the proprietors of all lands which they possessed and cultivated…

— J.H. Elliott

“He supported Jefferson’s proposed Land Ordinance of 1784,22 ceding Virginia’s western territory to Congress for division into fourteen future states in which “there shall…

— Harlow Giles Unger