Disgrace Quote by John McCain

The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under…

— Leonard Peltier

Native Americans have faced centuries of atrocities to their people, their land, and their culture - all under various presidents who took an oath…

— Markwayne Mullin

We, as Indian tribes, should be able to prosecute non-Indians on tribal lands. But on Indian land, we have no ability to prosecute anyone…

— Wes Studi

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon…

— Martin Van Buren

I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

— Erin Brockovich

“If this situation is going to change, then the call to Honour the Treaties needs to go a whole lot further than raising money…

— Naomi Klein

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

— Russell Smith

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

— Nelson A. Miles

Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew…

— Dr. John

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of…

— Aaron Huey

Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the English colonists.…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr