American Quote by Kelvin Sampson

With federal recognition, the Lumbee Tribe would become a full player in Indian country, no longer second class Indians in the eyes of the…

— Kelvin Sampson

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

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each…

— James Welch

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

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

— Harmon Killebrew

People are longing for tribe and community.

— Zal Batmanglij

I came from a family that was pretty insularly Cherokee. We kept to ourselves - the white people were there, and we were here,…

— Wes Studi

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

— John Russell

Indians were frequently off their reservations.

— Buffalo Bill

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think…

— Gertrude Stein

The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder