Lewis and clark Quote by James Webb

“What did the Revolution mean to the Native Americans, the Indians? They had been ignored by the fine words of the Declaration, had not…

— Howard Zinn

“Jennings, putting the Indian into the center of the American Revolution—after all, it was Indian land that everyone was fighting over—sees the Revolution as…

— Howard Zinn

“The first colonial leaders, however, would have none of this. Most of them were military men, trained in the Irish wars. Whatever they thought…

— David E. Stannard

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Until they became the British Empire’s greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter…

— James Webb

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight…

— Anonymous

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it…

— Henry David Thoreau

Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few…

— Jared Diamond

Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they…

— Ishmael Reed

“Indians were made for film. Indians were exotic and erotic. All those feathers, all that face paint, the breast plates, the bone chokers, the…

— Thomas King

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

— John Ford