Being human Quote by John Trudell

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American…

— Joseph Bruchac

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

— B. R. Ambedkar

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

— Paula Gunn Allen

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

— Ram Dass

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom…

— Joe Baca

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

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

— Russell Peters

Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present.

— Russell Means

“That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose…

— David Treuer

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

“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

We are not the Red Indians.

— Yasser Arafat