American indian Quote by Joseph Bruchac

We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and…

— Wilma Mankiller

We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully and I hope…

— Adam Beach

It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land,…

— Linda Hogan

All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.

— Jan C. Ting

Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a…

— James W. Loewen

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

— John Trudell

“In existing writings about federally recognized tribes and their engagement with tribal acknowledgment politics, a palpable theme is clear: presently recognized nations are not…

— Mark Edwin Miller

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

“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

As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been…

— Markwayne Mullin

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