American indian Quote by John F. Kennedy

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a…

— Sherman Alexie

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer…

— Chris Eyre

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I don't think a lot of people in America understand what Indians are. And that's our fault, a little. We tend to forget our…

— Priyanka Chopra

I don't think that people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to the American Indian, as a matter of fact, all…

— Marlon Brando

“From that original perception of the Indians as the originators of the American style of speech had come an expansion: The Indians were the…

— Robert M. Pirsig

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native…

— Sherman Alexie

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

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies.…

— Narendra Modi

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in…

— Wesley Morris

The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free…

— Paula Gunn Allen