Being thankful Quote by Helen Hunt Jackson

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better…

— Joseph Boyden

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they…

— Isak Dinesen

“The first instance of slave trading and slave labor developed in the New World involved, racially, not the Negro but the Indian. The Indians…

— Eric Williams

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying…

— Kit Carson

“I come from a family of Cherokee master storytellers. Listening to stories, reading them, and creating new tales is my life. These tales reveal…

— Louise Ann Barton

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets…

— Sebastian Barry

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live…

— Anonymous