Indian chief Quote by George Washington

“That was a big misunderstanding. The Indians thought that the white man’s God had powerful medicine, to be able to give white people guns…

— Win Blevins

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we shall have no more wars. We shall all be alike,…

— Chief Joseph

“Religion can be a good thing. Churches did black folks good after Reconstruction. It was the only place people like Nat Turner and Douglass…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

“Brother, if you white men murdered the son of the Great Spirit, we Indians had nothing to do with it. It is none of…

— Kenneth Roberts

“The white man’s god is just like the white man. He thinks he is the only god, just like the white man thinks he…

— Yaa Gyasi

“my father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit," Ridgeway said. "All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that…

— Colson Whitehead

“The spiritual rituals of Native American Christian communities are perceived as exotic pagan practices that dabble in syncretism and are inferior to the rich…

— Soong-Chan Rah

“If God really loved Indians, he would have made us white people.”

— Sherman Alexie

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

— Terence McKenna

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who…

— Sinclair Lewis

“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead, what they…

— Abhijit Naskar

Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of…

— Thomas Yellowtail