American Quote by John Russell

One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn't have any idea what that was.…

— Kelvin Sampson

It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed…

— Sherman Alexie

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the…

— Chaske Spencer

In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had…

— Taylor Sheridan

“They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores reservation life—the…

— T.J. Stiles

On any state elections map, the reservations are blue places. Native people are most often progressives, Democrats, and by no means gun-toting vigilantes.

— Louise Erdrich

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

— Buffalo Bill

“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control."…

— Dee Brown

Wayne: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them … the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it…

— John Wayne

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were…

— James Welch

“It’s hard to be optimistic on the reservation. When a glass sits on a table here, people don’t wonder if it’s half filled or…

— Sherman Alexie

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog