Asked Quote by Gertrude Chandler Warner

“Do you know the name of these yellow stones, Mr. Pond?” asked Violet. She picked one up and gave it to him. “No, I…

— Gertrude Chandler Warner

“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.”

— Tommy Orange

“Our land here is the dearest thing on earth to us. Men take up land and get rich on it, and it is very…

— White Thunder

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks…

— Nancy E. Turner

“You must be a rich man," she said. "Not much of a warrior, though. You keep letting me sneak up on you." You don't…

— Sherman Alexie

“admired, even emulated. “You saw for yourselves, the Indian doesn’t need the white man to live,” he went on. “He knows how to make…

— Scott Wallace

“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes…

— Krista Tippett

“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men…

— LaVyrle Spencer

“distance and found no smoke. We drank our coffee and ate fresh venison killed by Short Bull, and then we straddled our horses and…

— Louis L'Amour

“Our people don't come in parts. Either you are Indian, or you are not." --”

— Nippawanock Arapahoe

“As we were coming up again, we met with some Indians of strange aspects, that is, of a larger size, and other sort of…

— Aphra Behn

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

— Philip Sheridan