History Quote by John Irving

“The first time I went to America, I witnessed the majesty of Lake Champlain.”

— C.J. Waller

“There is something that connects Indians with their rivers. Some deep, indescribable bond.”

— Vineet Bajpai

“And he said, “You are Americans?” “Yes,” Mom said. “We’re from Indiana.” “Indiana,” he said. “They steal the land from the Indians and leave…

— John Green

“I saw him with her last week, at a coffeehouse near my apartment. They were holding hands. She’s captivated him.” “The Lakota Captive.” Leta…

— Diana Palmer

“The first thing to realize is that it is is a country that is still being imagined. Here every patch of earth has a…

— Daisy Goodwin

“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

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

— Sherman Alexie

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

— Vine Deloria Jr

“The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok – the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since…

— Jodi Picoult

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

— Anonymous

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten

“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed feelings about…

— Margaret Atwood