Point of view Quote by J.H. Elliott

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

— Alvin Francis Poussaint

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters…

— Thomas King

“Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to a territorial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

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

“In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Doesn't an Indian tribe finally surrender to colonization by becoming as capitalistic as our conquerors? Isn't indigenous economic sovereignty one of the sneakiest damn…

— Sherman Alexie

The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the…

— Ted Nugent

“Because the Indians are planning to start war now, the common people want all of them destroyed so that they can live in peace;…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

“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

“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as…

— James W. Loewen

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be…

— David Ricardo